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King Solomon's copper-and-gold palaces 'may have existed' | A UCSD professor of anthropology has uncovered evidence that suggests that King Solomon's splendid, copper-and gold-adorned palaces - as described in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) - may very well have existed. Thomas Levy has pioneered three highly sophisticated digging excavations in an area called Khirbat en-Nahas, located in southern Jordan. Levy found thousands of tons of slag, a by-product of smelting ore, and different
types of blowpipes in Jordan. Using the process of radiocarbon dating, his team
discovered there was industrial-scale metal production of copper precisely in
10th century BC. "It would have been like the Pittsburg of Palestine," SDNews.com
quoted Levy as saying. There are two sides to the King Solomon debate, he said.
First, there are those who "minimize the historicity of the Old Testament, saying
there was no Solomon because during the 10th century there were no societies capable
of creating a kingdom, only petty nomads." On the other side, there are those
who maximize the content of the Old Testament, he said. "We don't have proof that
we have found Solomon's mines, but what we have proof of is that there were kingdoms
in the 10th century," said Levy. "I think he existed."
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