ARCHAEOLOGY In a grassy
Bronze Age burial site in
Northern Israel, workmen
installing a gas pipe found a
sarcophagus, complete with
an approximately 3.300-year-
old skeleton of an adult man
and his golden seal.
The lid of the sarcophagus is made of clay and shaped like a human being, including a life- like impression of a face with hair, ears, and hands folded across the chest.
The seal is the shape of the holy Egyptian scarab beetle.
The lid of the sarcophagus is made of clay and shaped like a human being, including a life- like impression of a face with hair, ears, and hands folded across the chest.
The seal is the shape of the holy Egyptian scarab beetle.
Attached to a finger ring, it
includes the symbol of Pharaoh
Seti I, who ruled Egypt from
1304 to 1290 BC and
conquered the region of Israel,
in which the sarcophagus was
excavated. According to one
theory, the man in the
sarcophagus was a local, who
had been hired to be an
Egyptian government official.
He could also have been an
“imposter”, who copied
Egyptian burial rites. Scientists
believe he was an Israeli with
Egyptian relations.
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