{"id":4769,"date":"2020-08-25T14:01:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T07:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illume-emag.com\/?p=4769"},"modified":"2020-08-25T14:05:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T07:05:17","slug":"trove-of-1000-year-old-gold-coins-unearthed-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/trove-of-1000-year-old-gold-coins-unearthed-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Trove of 1,000-year-old gold coins unearthed in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4770\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4770 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/year-old-gold-illume.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/year-old-gold-illume.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/year-old-gold-illume-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/year-old-gold-illume-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/year-old-gold-illume-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/year-old-gold-illume-1068x712.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hoard of gold coins, said by the Israel Antiquities Authority to date to the Abbasid dynasty, is seen after its discovery at an archaeological site in Central Israel August 18, 2020. Picture taken August 18, 2020. Photo: Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The treasure was discovered on Aug. 18, the Israel Antiquities Authority said on Monday, by teenagers volunteering at an excavation in central Israel where a new neighbourhood is planned to be built.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe person who buried this treasure 1,100 years ago must have expected to retrieve it and even secured the vessel with a nail so that it would not move. We can only guess what prevented him from returning to collect this treasure,\u201d said excavation director Liat Nadav-Ziv.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The area it was found in housed workshops at the time the treasure was hidden and the identity of the owner is still a mystery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt was amazing,\u201d said Oz Cohen, one of the volunteers who found the treasure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI dug in the ground and when I excavated the soil, saw what looked like very thin leaves. When I looked again I saw these were gold coins. It was really exciting to find such a special and ancient treasure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dating back to the ninth century Abbasid Caliphate period, the 425 24-carat pure gold coins would have been a significant amount of money at the time, said Robert Kool, a coin expert at the Antiquities Authority.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFor example, with such a sum, a person could buy a luxurious house in one of the best neighbourhoods in Fustat, the enormous wealthy capital of Egypt in those days,\u201d Kool said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The treasure was discovered on Aug. 18, the Israel Antiquities Authority said on Monday, by teenagers volunteering at an excavation in central Israel where a new neighbourhood is planned to be built. \u201cThe person who buried this treasure 1,100 years ago must have expected to retrieve it and even secured the vessel with a nail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[761],"tags":[2520,2522,2524,2490,2440,2488],"class_list":{"0":"post-4769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-buzz","8":"tag-1000-year-old-gold","9":"tag-1000-year-old-gold-coins","10":"tag-gold-coins","11":"tag-illume-en","12":"tag-illume-emag-en","13":"tag-illume-magazine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}