Sa panahon kasi 9000 years di pa nag eexist ang bansang israel at ang mga israelita ay nasa pagkailipin pa ng mga egyptians kya parang di kapanipaniwala na 9000 yeard old na ang mask na iyan
It's either believe or not according sa mga archeologists... That the
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A similar mask was bought in 1970 by Moshe Dayan, who was Israel's defense minister at the time. Dayan fancied himself an amateur archaeologist and often engaged in practices that would be called looting today. "If there is any power in the world able to banish evil spirits, it must assuredly dwell in this mask," Dayan once wrote of the mask he purchased.
Besides Dayan's mask, which is now in the Israel Museum, 14 similar artifacts have been discovered in the Southern Levant region. But this is the first time in about 35 years that such a stone mask has been discovered. Very few of them come from known archaeological sites.
For instance, Palestinian archaeologist Jibril Srur later investigated the spot where Dayan's mask was found, only to document a large village that once existed at the site, during the so-called Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Period, around 9,000 years ago.
"The securest archaeological context for any Neolithic mask of this type is for the Nahal Hemar mask," which is in the collection of the Israel Museum, archaeologist Morag Kersel, of DePaul University, told Live Science in an email. "This mask was discovered in the spring of 1983 by archaeologists Ofer Bar Yosef and David Alon, who excavated a cramped, dark, debris-filled cave overlooking the
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Another stone mask had been bought in the 1890s from villagers in Er-Ram, a Palestinian town near Jerusalem, which is now at the Palestine Exploration Fund in London, Kersel said. Ten other similar masks are in the Judy and Michael Steinhardt collection, but archaeologists don't know where they came from because they were all acquired from the antiquities market.
The newly discovered mask, and some of the others, have holes drilled around their edges, possibly so that they could be tied around a person's face or another object. Without much archaeological context for these artifacts, archaeologists don't know exactly how the masks were used 9,000 years ago; some think they were linked to
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"When we talk about the Neolithic period, we talk about the transition from a hunter-gatherer society to permanent settlements," Lupu said. "People are starting to domesticate plants and animals. This is a time when the spiritual world is very strong."
Besides the stone carved masks, archaeologists have also discovered
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