Find a 9,000-year-old animal statue

Israeli archaeologists have discovered two 9,000-year-old animal statues while excavating an area to build a highway a few kilometers north of Jerusalem.

The image of a male sheep with horns.

Two statues are longer than 15cm, made of limestone and dolomite, used to be a lucky charm for hunters during the Stone Age.

The findings are highly regarded by experts for these statues so old that they existed several thousand years before Moses. A statue has a picture of a bull, the other image has a male sheep with horns.

The statue is smooth with bulls.

The excavator, Hamoud Khalaily, said: 'Hunting is a major activity during this period. Under the assumption, these statues were used as lucky charms to successfully hunt and could be the center of a traditional ritual that hunters organized before hunting. '

It is estimated that the statues range from 9,000 to 9,500 years ago - the period considered one of the most important periods in human history, a time of change to form human society in the row. the next thousand years.

Reference: Daily Mail