JERUSALEM (JTA) — Students working to build the “Sanhedrin Trail” in Israel’s Galilee unearthed a 1,400-year-old oil lamp bearing the symbol of the Jerusalem Temple’s menorah ...

In the 23-foot-long segment, filled with soil and debris, they found the pearls, and alongside them, an intact oil lamp, thought to date from the 3rd-4th centuries AD. Most of the pottery nuclei have ...

What makes this find particularly exciting is that 14 of the pearls contain nuclei of pottery ... oil lamps used to light the way. The ‘cave pearls’ were found in an ancient tunnel in Israel ...