Egyptian jewellery and pottery recovered from looted tomb. Artifacts were overlooked by hapless thieves.
Precious jewellery and ceramic artefacts crafted by the ancient Egyptians have escaped the clutches of robbers.
A collection of 3,000-year-old items have been recovered by archaeologists from an underground cave in Israel, despite indications of looting.
And the artefacts, which include seals, pots, lamps and amulets dating back to the 14th century BC, could help experts shed light on the purpose of the site.
Experts at the Israel Antiquities Authority’s (IAA) Unit for the Prevention of Antiquities Robbery found pickaxes at the cave near Kibbutz Lahav in Israel, indicating the site had been disturbed.
But looters had failed to spot a hoard of ancient artefacts, including bronze, shell and faience (tin glazed) jewellery, ceramic pots, amulets, oil lamps, jars and scarab seals.
Recently, a British treasure hunter came across a seal that could be more than 3,000 years old, in a charity shop.
James Balme paid just £12 ($19) for the seal on a charity website and believes it bears the cartouche of Ramesses the Great, who ruled Egypt between 1,279 and 1,213BC.
In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche is an oval with a horizontal line at one end, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name.
He came across the ancient artefact while trawling the website of a charity shop in Hertfordshire.
The carved stone has hieroglyphs carved into one side that can be used as a seal, and a scene on its reverse, showing a man sitting down with an eagle over his head and a scarab beetle at his feet.
Mr Balme, who also works as a television presenter, believes this scene makes the object unusual, and is working with experts to find out how rare it is.
The seal still has traces of red ochre as well as grains of sand embedded deep inside the carved lines of the object.
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