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Arab Nations Ban Exodus Movie for “Inaccuracies,” “Racism”

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Ridley Scott's recently released Exodus: Gods and Kings has proved to be quite controversial in Arab countries, including Egypt, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. While the film makes little attempt to be historically accurate, it does dramatize the story of Moses (played by Christian Bale) leading the Jews out of Egypt, a story that God has commanded the Jewish People to retell every year at Passover.

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King Herod’s Jerusalem Palace Unearthed and Open to Visitors

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Excavations in the Turkish barracks (Kishle) building south of King David's Citadel have unearthed six layers of archaeological history—from an Ottoman police station later used by the British to walls from the reigns of Hezekiah, the Hasmoneans and Herod. "Jewish members of the pre-state underground militias were incarcerated here by the British and one can still see a map of the Greater Land of Israel scratched by the prisoners onto one of the walls," states the Tower of David website. Among the evidence uncovered at King Herod's Jerusalem palace, perhaps the very palace in which the three Magi (Wise Men or Kings) inquired about the new born king of the Jews, is the oldest of the location's findings, including the palace's retaining walls and drainage system.

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Archaeologists Uncover Sobibor Gas Chambers

On Wednesday, Israel's official museum for the victims of the Holocaust, Yad Vashem, and Poland’s Majdanek State Museum announced the discovery of the gas chambers at the Sobibor death camp, which was located in what was German-occupied East Poland. As many as 250,000 Jews were murdered at Sobibor from April, 1942 to October, 1943 when the 600 remaining prisoners revolted. They killed about a dozen German officers, allowing about 300 prisoners to escape, even past the 50-foot wide strip of landmines that surrounded the site.

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Canaanite Wine Cellar Found in Galilee

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A recently released study by archaeologists who last year unearthed what was thought to be a Bronze Age royal wine cellar at the northern Galilee site of Tel Kabri confirmed that the bottles originally contained wine. “The presence of both tartaric and syringic acids in relative abundance as biomarkers indicates that all of these vessels originally held wine and that we may be confident in identifying this space as a wine storage room—that is to say, a wine cellar,” they said.

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