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once upon a time Indiana more than once I travel to the way south of Israel towards a lot in what was once a fertile land

but it is now extremely dry and I believe this was the Nabatean civilization that the Romans

overwhelmed and then used for resources. I don't recall more than the fact that you

could see forever from one mount to another

and that there were streams, stream beds at various times during the year there were experiments to capture the water and fertilize the area around the dry bed.

I remember that much. The Nabatians I don't know very much about,

and there was evidence of the Romans camped out.

Thaddeus?

Indiana, you come from the land of a scorpion ascent

with tales of a 16-year-old and a 1,600 year old land.

Please tell us.

Very poetic question and absolutely right.

Yon at Tom Frank was a 16 year old pupil from the Tamara High School who together with his class from

Hodasharone were on their annual field trip which all Israeli students do and this was

on the scorpion's ascent in southern Israel and when they stopped for lunch next to one of the old

Roman forts in Masad Safir he began to pick up rocks to look at them and one of them he saw was different and brushed off the

the sand and he noticed that there was design and he realized this was man-made object and he brought it to the teacher who then went to the archaeologists

in the Southern Authority and they discovered it was an oil lamp that was produced in Petra in

Jordan in the fourth to fifth century and on that very

site the father of Israeli archaeology Nelson Gluck 90 years ago almost

to the day found an exact duplicate of that very rare oil lamp produced

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