Archaeologists uncover proof of ancient biblical battle at Armageddon site: 'Exceptional phenomenon'

Archaeologists judge they person uncovered grounds of an past biblical battle, each acknowledgment to a fewer breached fragments recovered successful a funny location.

The artifacts, which mostly dwell of Egyptian pottery, were recovered during a caller excavation of the past metropolis of Megiddo successful bluish Israel. The tract is said to incorporate implicit 30 layers of assorted settlements, dating backmost from the Copper Age to World War I.

Tel Megiddo was the determination wherever Josiah, the king of Judah, famously fought the Battle of Megiddo successful 609 B.C. The Jewish person was defeated and killed by the service of Egyptian Pharaoh Necho II.

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The communicative of the conflict is told successful the Second Book of Kings successful the Old Testament, but Megiddo is besides referenced successful the Book of Revelation. The tract is referred to arsenic "Armageddon," intimately related to the Hebrew operation "Har Megiddo," which translates to "mountain of Megiddo."

Israeli archaeologists person recovered Egyptian pottery astatine the tract of an past biblical battle. (Megiddo Expedition, Yevgeni Ostrovsky)

Megiddo is said to beryllium the determination wherever the prophesied Battle of Armageddon volition beryllium fought betwixt the kings of Earth and God. But portion archaeologists cannot beryllium that the tract volition beryllium the determination of a conflict during the extremity times, they judge they whitethorn person recovered impervious of the Old Testament story.

Dr. Assaf Kleiman, a elder lecturer astatine Ben-Gurion University of the Negev successful Israel, told Fox News Digital helium believes the pottery fragments belonged to the Egyptian service that defeated Josiah.

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The findings dwell of "significant quantities" of Egyptian-produced breached vessels dating backmost to the precocious 7th period B.C., adjacent to erstwhile the Battle of Megiddo was fought. 

Area X (left) is located adjacent the Southern Assyrian Palace of Megiddo (right). (Megiddo Expedition)

Instead of the fragments being impervious of a commercialized relationship, Kleiman believes that they were brought successful by Egyptian troops alternatively than being imported into the territory.

The adept cited the "crude accumulation technique, functional mixture, and the deficiency of akin grounds successful adjacent settlements," arsenic cardinal reasons wherefore they judge the artifacts were brought successful by an army.

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The Egyptian pottery (seen here) was apt brought successful by armies successful the aftermath of the Battle of Megiddo. (Megiddo Expedition, Yevgeni Ostrovsky)

"The vulnerability of truthful galore Egyptian vessels, including fragments of serving bowls, cooking pots, and retention jars, is an exceptional phenomenon," Kleiman explained. 

"We, therefore, recognize it arsenic representing Egyptians who settled astatine Megiddo successful the precocious 7th century, possibly arsenic portion of an service unit that arrived astatine the tract pursuing the illness of the Assyrian Empire," helium added.

He besides said that the Grecian pottery whitethorn beryllium impervious of Greek mercenaries successful the Egyptian army, which was not unheard of astatine the time.

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Greek pottery astatine the tract whitethorn beryllium impervious of mercenaries successful the Egyptian army. (Megiddo Expedition, Sasha Flit)

"Service of Greeks, astir apt from occidental Anatolia, successful the Egyptian service of the 26th Dynasty is referred to successful some Greek [from Herodotus] and Assyrian sources," Kleiman noted. 

"The anticipation of the information of specified mercenaries successful the sidesplitting of Josiah whitethorn beryllium hinted successful prophetic works successful the Bible."

Kleiman besides explained that the Egyptian colony astatine Megiddo "did not past long" and that the gathering wherever the artifacts were recovered was apt abandoned decades later. The breached vessels were astir apt near arsenic litter.

Though Kleiman noted that there's nary non-biblical impervious of Josiah, Kleiman asserted that the king's beingness "has ne'er been doubted successful biblical and humanities scholarship."

Megiddo is located successful bluish Israel and has been continuously settled since the Copper Age. (Megiddo Expedition)

"We tin besides enactment that literacy was much communal successful that era, and frankincense his reign was astir apt documented by scribes who witnessed the events successful existent time," Kleiman said. "Evidence for Necho’s beingness successful the Levant and the conflict against the Babylonians successful Carchemish, wherever the Egyptians lost, is documented successful the Babylonian chronicles arsenic good arsenic successful the Bible, successful Jeremiah and Kings."

Archaeologists program to bash much probe into the site's Bronze Age roots. 

Kleiman besides recovered grounds to judge that immoderate members of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel were not each expelled to Mesopotamia successful the 7th period B.C. and really whitethorn person stayed successful Megiddo.

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"Our excavations demonstrated continuous accumulation (and consumption) of akin locally-style vessels astatine Megiddo, particularly cooking pots, besides nether imperial rule," helium explained. "This suggests that the societal cloth of Megiddo successful the Assyrian Era indispensable person been composed of a important information of section populations, who were not expelled by the Assyrians and who lived alongside deportees brought successful by the empire."