King David Gets a Facelift - The BAS Library

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In 1965 Egyptian archaeologists discovered a mosaic in an ancient synagogue in Gaza. Only a few distorted black-and-white photographs remain from that initial excavation.

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Footnotes

See Connie Kestenbaum Green, “King David’s Head from Gaza Synagogue Restored,” BAR 20:02.

See “David Discovered—and Destroyed,” sidebar to Jas Elsner, “Double Identity,” BAR 35:02.