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	Ancient Fortification Uncovered

dgreplay

9-3-2009 12:00 PM

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I'm always amazed when something like this is discovered...

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0936e1bc-cb2b-4b59-b911-dac01785fa3b/69B1E0FF-F200-4B85-B1C7-7383E6E47F74/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090902/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_wall" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090902/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_wall" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090902/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_wall"><SPAN id="lw_1251932978_0" class="yshortcuts">Archaeologists</SPAN> digging in <SPAN id="lw_1251932978_1" class="yshortcuts">Jerusalem</SPAN> have uncovered a 3,700-year-old wall that is the oldest example of massive fortifications ever found in the city, the <SPAN id="lw_1251932978_2" class="yshortcuts">Israel Antiquities Authority</SPAN> said Wednesday</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090902/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_wall">The 26-foot-high wall is believed to have been part of a protected passage built by ancient <SPAN id="lw_1251932978_3" class="yshortcuts">Canaanites</SPAN> from a hilltop fortress to a nearby spring that was the city's <SPAN id="lw_1251932978_4" class="yshortcuts">only water source</SPAN> and vulnerable to marauders</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090902/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_wall">The wall dates to the 17th century B.C., when Jerusalem was a small, fortified enclave controlled by the Canaanites</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090902/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_wall">"The wall is enormous, and that it survived 3,700 years — this is, even for us, a long time</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090902/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_wall"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/CE9BD28A-589C-4504-9991-FEFC39DC6E4D" alt="This image made available by Israel's Antiquities Authority Wednesday, Sept. 2," /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/69B1E0FF-F200-4B85-B1C7-7383E6E47F74/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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