Archeology

A picture depicting a 1,000-year-old parchment from a Hebrew bible manuscript is screened during a news conference at Jerusalem's Yad Ben-Zvi institute December 2, 2007. The institute said last month the scrap of paper, the size of a credit card, forms part of the 10th century Aleppo Codex, viewed by scholars as one of the most authoritative manuscripts of the Hebrew bible. The parchment was kept as a lucky charm by Sam Sabbagh, a Syrian Jew who in 1947 plucked it from the floor of an Aleppo...
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A picture depicting a 1,000-year-old parchment from a Hebrew bible manuscript is screened during a news conference at Jerusalem's Yad Ben-Zvi institute December 2, 2007. The institute said last month the scrap of paper, the size of a credit card, forms part of the 10th century Aleppo Codex, viewed by scholars as one of the most authoritative manuscripts of the Hebrew bible. The parchment was kept as a lucky charm by Sam Sabbagh, a Syrian Jew who in 1947 plucked it from the floor of an Aleppo synagogue that was torched after a United Nations decision to partition Palestine, paving the way for the creation of Israel..Photo by Daniel Bar-On/Jini
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