First Aleppo-pine coffin found on the Nabataean Incense Road near Avedat
Discovery of a uniquely preserved Roman-period burial, just meters from Israel’s Route 40, adds a rare wooden coffin to the Negev corpus and sits opposite a later Byzantine Christian cemetery.
Canyon En Avedat of the Negev Desert in Israel.(photo credit: Sun Shock. Via Shutterstock)ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF