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Herod’s royal bathtubs were made in Israel

John JeffayIsrael21cMay 18, 2022

Alabaster was quarried locally, not in Egypt as always assumed, according to Bar-Ilan University researchers.

Herod’s royal calcite-alabaster bathtub, found in Kypros fortress. Photo by professor Amos Frumkin/Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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