Closed 9000 year old mask

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The ancient mask was discovered on the West Bank. (Antiquities Theft Prevention Unit, Israel Antiquities Authority). It is one of only 15 in the world.

With oval-shaped holes for eyes and a small ridge for a nose, the mask resembles something a 1970s hockey goalie (or Jason in "Friday the 13th") might have worn.

The mask was discovered near Pnei Hever, an Israeli settlement east of Hebron in the West Bank.

Ronit Lupu, an archaeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) told Live Science that a man had been walking through a field when he picked up the mask from the ground and eventually turned it over to the IAA's Antiquities Theft Prevention Unit.

The archaeologists said that it could be one of the oldest surviving ritual masks in the world, however, there was not enough evidence available to identify what function the artifact served. It could also have been used as a death mask, for example, or displayed in another way, such as being hung up—as the holes drilled into its side would suggest.

The West Bank is landlocked Palestinian territory that has been under Israeli occupation since the 1967 Six-Day War. Disputes over artifacts uncovered there were a common feature of the long-running conflict.

Several representations of human faces have been found across the Levant, however, most of them tend to be relatively abstract, with experts divided over whether they could be definitively described as masks, Haaretz reported. As such, the recent finding and the 14 similar masks were considered the earliest definitive manifestations of this phenomenon.

-grabe subrang tanda ng mask na to...

 

[shindouai02]

wow. legit haha

 

[birdian bucane]

nice paps hahahah

 

[G O Z A R U]

Legit

 

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9000 years old parang di kapanipaniwala ang panahon ni moises ay mga nasa halos 4000 years old palang mula nang naitatag ang israel

 

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9000 years old parang di kapanipaniwala ang panahon ni moises ay mga nasa halos 4000 years old palang mula nang naitatag ang israel

According with them.. maybe fake or not Kersel urges caution, noting that “authentic” patina can be replicated on counterfeit artifacts. “We’ll never know if a mask is fake or where it really comes from unless it’s scientifically excavated,” she says.
Base sa nabasa ko panahon pa ni Jesus yan mask na yan!

 

[Lightrash]

May jabawockees na rin pala during that time

 

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May jabawockees na rin pala during that time

Oo nga e... ginamit pa yan noong panahon pa ni Jesus Christ! Sabi nun archeologists... pakibasa na lang eto... tinatamad na ko magsummarize e.. lol

Another stone mask had been bought in the 1890s from villagers in Er-Ram, a Palestinian town near Jerusalem, which is now at the Palestine Exploration Fund in London, Kersel said. Ten other similar masks are in the Judy and Michael Steinhardt collection, but archaeologists don't know where they came from because they were all acquired from the antiquities market.

The newly discovered mask, and some of the others, have holes drilled around their edges, possibly so that they could be tied around a person's face or another object. Without much archaeological context for these artifacts, archaeologists don't know exactly how the masks were used 9,000 years ago; some think they were linked to You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. involving ancestor cults.

"When we talk about the Neolithic period, we talk about the transition from a hunter-gatherer society to permanent settlements," Lupu said. "People are starting to domesticate plants and animals. This is a time when the spiritual world is very strong."

Besides the stone carved masks, archaeologists have also discovered You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. in the region from this same period. Lupu said a spiritual purpose might be the only explanation for such elaborately crafted objects. "They didn't dig with them," she said. "They didn't hunt with them."

 

[Delta India Charlie Kilo]

Egyptian mask?

 

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Egyptian mask?

Yep..

 

[ran100]

the man in the iron mask..lol

 

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According with them.. maybe fake or not Kersel urges caution, noting that “authentic” patina can be replicated on counterfeit artifacts. “We’ll never know if a mask is fake or where it really comes from unless it’s scientifically excavated,” she says.
Base sa nabasa ko panahon pa ni Jesus yan mask na yan!

Sa panahon kasi 9000 years di pa nag eexist ang bansang israel at ang mga israelita ay nasa pagkailipin pa ng mga egyptians kya parang di kapanipaniwala na 9000 yeard old na ang mask na iyan

 

[_no08One_]

Kung totoo mang ganun na sya katanda, napakahusay ng pgkagawa. Para ginamitan ng power tool. (Yung edges nya sa eye-holes)

 

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Sa panahon kasi 9000 years di pa nag eexist ang bansang israel at ang mga israelita ay nasa pagkailipin pa ng mga egyptians kya parang di kapanipaniwala na 9000 yeard old na ang mask na iyan

It's either believe or not according sa mga archeologists... That the You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. could provoke such a reaction might not be so surprising. Pakibasa na lang yung kabuuan paliwanag jan.. hahahah! Nahihirapan na ko mag explain e. Lol

A similar mask was bought in 1970 by Moshe Dayan, who was Israel's defense minister at the time. Dayan fancied himself an amateur archaeologist and often engaged in practices that would be called looting today. "If there is any power in the world able to banish evil spirits, it must assuredly dwell in this mask," Dayan once wrote of the mask he purchased.

Besides Dayan's mask, which is now in the Israel Museum, 14 similar artifacts have been discovered in the Southern Levant region. But this is the first time in about 35 years that such a stone mask has been discovered. Very few of them come from known archaeological sites.

For instance, Palestinian archaeologist Jibril Srur later investigated the spot where Dayan's mask was found, only to document a large village that once existed at the site, during the so-called Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Period, around 9,000 years ago.

"The securest archaeological context for any Neolithic mask of this type is for the Nahal Hemar mask," which is in the collection of the Israel Museum, archaeologist Morag Kersel, of DePaul University, told Live Science in an email. "This mask was discovered in the spring of 1983 by archaeologists Ofer Bar Yosef and David Alon, who excavated a cramped, dark, debris-filled cave overlooking the You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.," Kersel said.

Another stone mask had been bought in the 1890s from villagers in Er-Ram, a Palestinian town near Jerusalem, which is now at the Palestine Exploration Fund in London, Kersel said. Ten other similar masks are in the Judy and Michael Steinhardt collection, but archaeologists don't know where they came from because they were all acquired from the antiquities market.

The newly discovered mask, and some of the others, have holes drilled around their edges, possibly so that they could be tied around a person's face or another object. Without much archaeological context for these artifacts, archaeologists don't know exactly how the masks were used 9,000 years ago; some think they were linked to You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. involving ancestor cults.

"When we talk about the Neolithic period, we talk about the transition from a hunter-gatherer society to permanent settlements," Lupu said. "People are starting to domesticate plants and animals. This is a time when the spiritual world is very strong."

Besides the stone carved masks, archaeologists have also discovered You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. in the region from this same period. Lupu said a spiritual purpose might be the only explanation for such elaborately crafted objects. "They didn't dig with them," she said. "They didn't hunt with them."

 

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Kung totoo mang ganun na sya katanda, napakahusay ng pgkagawa. Para ginamitan ng power tool. (Yung edges nya sa eye-holes)

Sabi sa paliwang ng iba parang sinukat sa muka ng tao yan parang kagaya kay Jesus. Iba iba kasi paliwang ng mga archeologist kaya mahirap paniwalaan yan!

 

[Delta India Charlie Kilo]

Yep..

Fail ka sa history exam, 75 grades mo.

 

[Pokiko Black]

ganyang maskara ginagamit ng mga executioner

 

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Fail ka sa history exam, 75 grades mo.

Why? That place - it is a part of middle east! is it right?

 

[Hololo]

Ang hirap naman huminga pag isuot yan. Naalala ko tuloy yung movie na si leonardo di caprio ang main character. Ano ba title nun?

 

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Ang hirap naman huminga pag isuot yan. Naalala ko tuloy yung môviê na si leonardo di caprio ang main character. Ano ba title nun?

Nagsuot din ba siya niyan?