Friday, July 5, 2013

13,700 Year Old Holy Land Grave Yields Earliest Evidence Of Using Flower Beds For Burial




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13,700 Year Old Holy Land Grave Yields Earliest Evidence Of Using Flower Beds For Burial



Earliest Evidence Of Using Flower Beds For Burial Found In Holy Land Cave In Mt. Carmel, 13,700 Year Old Grave The earliest evidence of using flower beds for burial, dating back to 13,700 years ago, was discovered in Raqefet Cave in Mt. Carmel, during excavations led by the University of Haifa. In four different graves from the Natufian period, dating back to 13,700-11,700 years ago, dozens of impressions of Salvia plants and other species of sedges and mints (the Lamiaceae family), were found under human skeletons.






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