JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—Inspectors with the Israel Antiquities Authority’s (IAA) Unit for the Prevention of Antiquities Robbery found pickaxes and other clues left behind by looters in a cave in southern Israel. They also found a cache of 3,000-year-old Egyptian artifacts that the diggers missed, including intact pots; jewelry made of bronze, shells, and faience; oil lamps; amulets; alabaster jars; cosmetic vessels; and Egyptian scarab seals dating to the fifteenth and fourteenth centuries B.C. “During this period, Canaan was ruled by Egypt,” Daphna Ben-Tor of the Israel Museum said in a statement released by the IAA and reported in Live Science. The names of the kings on the seals, such as Thutmose and Amenhotep, helped archaeologists to date the artifacts. To read more about the ancient Egyptian presence in Israel, see "Egyptian Style in Ancient Canaan."
