A 5,500-year-old Canaanite blade factory was recently uncovered in Israel — offering a rare link to a major group of people central to the Bible.
The ancient workshop was discovered in Kiryat Gat, a city roughly 40 miles south of Tel Aviv. The workshop is the first of its kind found in southern Israel.
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) made the announcement in a Facebook post in late July.
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“The most impressive findings discovered at the site are large flint cores, from which extremely sharp, uniformly shaped blades were produced,” the IAA said.
“The blades themselves were used as knives for cutting and butchering, and as harvesting tools, like sickle blades.”
The remnants of the factory were unearthed at the city’s Nahal Qomem archaeological site, which
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