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Israel unveils ‘extremely rare’ Iron Age papyrus note
JERUSALEM: Israel's Antiquities Authority displayed Wednesday a rare papyrus note in ancient Hebrew dating back 2,700 years, recently brought back to Jerusalem after its chance discovery in the United States.The letter fragment, written in the Palaeo-Hebrew used during the First Temple era, constitutes four lines beginning “To Ishmael send”, with the rest of the words incomplete.“We don’t know exactly what was being sent and to where,“ said Joe Uziel, director of the antiquities authority’s Judaean Desert scrolls unit.In the Iron Age, Hebrews used clay fragments to scrawl short notes and animal hide for scriptures, with papyrus reserved for official correspondence, said Eitan Klein, deputy d

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