The Thinker from Yehud

Millennia later, and still thinking … Sitting atop a ceramic jug in silent reflection, this figurine has been known as the “Thinker from Yehud.” It was discovered in 2016 during salvage excavations in the Israeli city of Yehud just north of Ben Gurion Airport, some 8 miles east of Tel Aviv. Coming from a Middle Bronze Age II (c. 1800–1600 B.C.E.) tomb, where it was accompanied by three daggers, two spearheads, an axe head, and a knife, it belonged to the funerary equipment of a warrior. In the same tomb, archaeologists also found two male sheep and a donkey, […]