The Israeli Ginosar Valley in the north-west coast of the Sea of Galilee discovered archaeological mound older than two thousand years. Perhaps this Fishing village near Magdala is biblical Dalmanufa, traces of which are lost in time. Recall, that#39;s where Jesus and his disciples after the miraculous feeding of 4,000 people.
It should be noted that the Bible encyclopedia in the last century wrote about the settlement: one of the old or new tools are not able to specify where the aforesaid was probably a small area. But now it looks like it still found.
After the miraculous feeding of the four thousand, Jesus and his disciples crossed the lake of Gennesaret, and, according to Mark the Evangelist, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha, where there was a dispute with the Pharisees Savior, certainly demanded a sign. Perhaps Dalmanufa was on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, near Magdala and Capernaum. There are theories that the name appeared as a result of deterioration of the text, which initially could stand fairly well-known place name or village. Unanimity among the experts on this issue and the question of the exact identification Dalmanufy in the Gospel of Mark is still open.
Excavation director Ken Dark (Ken Dark) from the University of Reading in the online portal LiveScience states that the findings of glass beads and amphorae clearly indicate the prosperity of the settlement around 50 BC. Sinkers, stone anchors and boat (8.2 meters long, 2.3 meters wide and a height of about 1.25), found in 1986, said that the main occupation of the locals were fishing.
In Scripture we read about Jesus Christ said to his disciples, that was ready for a little boat, and then when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. Jesus boat, perhaps on her swimming during the earthly life of the Son of Man, found on the shore of the Sea of Galilee shoaled. The moment when the brothers Moshe and Yuval loofah found the boat, a rainbow appeared in the sky, which is documented by color photography.
Not so long ago, archaeologists have found that the southern part of the city is just 150 meters away from another ancient settlement (in the New Testament is mentioned in the Aramaic form of writing as Magdala). From it occurred Equal to the Apostles, Mary Magdalene, one of the first followers of Christ. The area between the modern town of Migdal and the shore of the lake found hundreds of pottery fragments. The oldest artifacts date back to II-I centuries BC, and the most recent date the experts of the fifth century AD. Probably the settlement existed in the days of the Byzantine Empire.
Locals do not hide the fact that for their needs using found near the wreckage of some architectural structures. These stories are interested professionals and they understand where you need to dig a little deeper in the literal sense. Thus, in the hands of the archaeologists found pieces of which mosaic, called tesserae (translated from the Latin language - quads), and vessel fragments of limestone, which, according to archaeologists, have been associated with ritual ablutions practiced by the Jews in the early Roman period.
However, the most impressive discoveries made in the Migdal where found dozens of fragments of architectural structures that are already present citizens have adapted to decorate their garden plots, under the bench or left lying on the ground. In one of the sites taken down for more than forty-hewn basalt blocks. Among the debris found in the samples Corinthian capitals. In the ancient city of stone buildings were lined with mosaic floors. Speaking of other findings, Ken Dark mentioned pagan altar of light gray limestone, which made their rites of worship supporters, followers of polytheism.
While archaeologists have to work hard studying the past settlements around the Sea of Galilee in the era of the Roman and Byzantine empires, scholars extremely little is known about the synthesis of different cultures in the region. And the archaeological and written sources indicate the existence of the same here special economic system, in line with which local communities have developed a specialized fishing industry along with agricultural production.
