Archaeologists find King David era fabric
Israeli archaeologists have discovered fragments of “remarkably preserved” 3,000-year-old fabrics, leather, and seeds dating to the era of the biblical kings David and Solomon.
This is the first discovery of textiles dating from the tenth century BC “and therefore provides the first physical evidence” of what residents of the Holy Land wore, said Erez Ben-Yosef, the lead archaeologist with the Tel Aviv University excavation team that did the dig.
The excavation, carried out in southern Israel at the ancient copper mines of Timna—believed by many to be the site of King Solomon’s mines—took place in late January and February.
