Jerusalem’s Golden Tomb

Nearly ,000 years ago, a young girl was laid to rest in a tomb on Jerusalem’s Mt. Scopus. She was buried inside a lead coffin with a trove of gold jewelry, which archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) are just beginning to investigate. Among the items found within the girl’s coffin were golden earrings, a hairpin, gold, carnelian, and glass beads, and a gold chain bearing a lunula pendant named after the Roman moon goddess Luna. The burial dates to the later part of the Roman period when, following the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, the city […]