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A THIEF STRUCK by misfortune since stealing two artefacts 20 years ago has returned them along with an appeal to others to refrain from plundering antiquities, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Monday.
The 2,000-year-old sling stones, which were taken from the ancient city of Gamla on the Golan Heights, were left last week in a bag in the courtyard of the Museum of Islamic and Near Eastern Cultures in Israel’s southern city of Beersheba, said the IAA.
“These are two Roman ballista balls from Gamla, from a residential quarter at the foot of the summit,” the thief wrote in a note distributed by the Authority.
“I stole them in July 1995, and since then they have brought me nothing but trouble. Please, do not steal antiquities!” said the note written in Hebrew.
The thief did not detail the nature of his or her misfortune.
The Antiquities Authority said nearly 2,000 such stones were found in Gamla. They were used by the Romans against the Jews attempting to prevent the conquest of the hilltop city.
This was not the first plundered antiquity to be returned, said the Authority, noting that a Tel Aviv resident had held an ancient coffin in his bedroom before realising its “morbid nature”.
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Hope she is found okay!!!
Best laugh I’ve had all day
Her body was found and then eaten by one of the local tribes
She’s prob just shopping
Or eaten by them fierce creatures
mere cats ….like in life if pie
That’s a bit racist. All islanders are or we’re not cannibals.
They cannot find jumbo jet that disappeared in 2014, yet they hope to find 1 or 2 person propeller plane from 70 years ago, yeah I think that may work.
Not a jumbo jet and by lack of oxygen or intentionally it was crashed in middle of ocean. One thinks that if she was experiencing problems with her aircraft she might go for any land in sight.
So maybe she did crash there. Maybe not. Be cool to solve but won’t hold my breath
Didn’t they find some pieces of her plane and some skeletons on the island there, somewhen in the fifties, thought I read something about that, but can’t remember where
Women drivers crash into anything and still manage to get lost
‘Hunting the mysterious disappearance of……’ What did the English language ever do to The Journal to be abused in this way? One might say ‘Hunting for…’ someone or something or ‘Investigating the disappearance of…….’ someone or something, but ‘Hunting the disappearance of…’ is just bad grammar.
Wow. She’s gonna be really really old if they do find her.
So basically they watched ‘lost’ and got this idea!
Aiiggghhhhtttttttt…..
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