tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235895328897399772024-03-13T10:38:10.314-07:00Cave of The TreasureMandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23589532889739977.post-81685994202775171482019-09-15T10:29:00.002-07:002019-09-15T10:29:46.546-07:00Book Library of the Cave of The Treasure<br />
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<br />Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23589532889739977.post-13412685676018853812019-07-31T13:01:00.001-07:002019-09-15T10:33:36.806-07:00Uncovering the Treasure in the CaveOn March 21, 1961 I was in The Cave with Pessach Bar-Adon and a few others, watching how the treasure was unearthed. That's 58 years ago. I remember the day, the moment and the next day like yesterday.<br />
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Watch this 15 minutes video to see and hear some of my eyewitness account.</span></b><br />
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<br />Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23589532889739977.post-2467963377225988442019-07-30T14:34:00.002-07:002019-07-31T08:30:33.259-07:00The Cave of The Treasure Blog<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">THE CAVE OF THE TREASURE </span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">IN NAHAL MISHMAR</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dr. MANDY (MENAHEM) LENDER</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This tale has passed through the prism of my mind
and memory after fifty-eight years since it happened. Memories fade with time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">For visual evidence the reader is directed to
external links that exquisitely depict selected items out of over four hundred
and thirty two that were uncovered in the cave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In 1961 there were no digital cameras.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Photographic equipment was bulky, heavy and expensive. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I was twenty years old in 1961.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At that period I served a thirty months stint
of military service in the Israel Defense Forces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was recruited in November 1959 and assigned
after arduous boot-camp training for training as a military paramedic in
support of field unit in the army.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
job was similar a medical assistant providing first aid, dispensing
medications, giving shots and taking care of sick soldiers that were in
isolation due to minor illnesses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those
were my routine duties <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the time we spent in field conditions
on the borders of Israel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In early March 1961 the first sergeant that was in
charge of the medical unit called me, unexpectedly, asking if I am willing to
volunteer to go on detail attached to a special operations unit as a paramedic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">That unit was assigned to provide logistical support to
an archaeological expedition going to the Judean Desert to do further digging in
pursuit of ancient biblical scrolls.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">The overall archaeological expedition consisted of
four smaller separate units.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Each unit
was assigned to a different canyon in the Judean Desert.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">The sub-expeditions were separated from each
other and had to be self-sufficient.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">The
geography in the eastern slopes of the Judean Desert Mountains is such that
deep canyons cut through it and divide the desert.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Traveling the short way on vehicles between
canyons is impossible.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The top of the mountains was under the control of
the Jordanian kingdom that was in a state of war with Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The slopes fell into the Dead Sea as rock
walls each 1,000 feet high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">You can parachute down to the bottom of the canyon and
do mountain climbing your way back up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alternatively,
if you are friends with the Israeli air force it will provide you a helicopter <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ride to hop your way from camp to camp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that option was not open to us, the foot
soldiers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I didn’t hesitate and I volunteered to go without
losing a moment for further thought.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I packed and went.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Before departing my home-base I sent a letter to my parents telling them
that I am going to be fine but unable to communicate for three weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
special operation unit set out south towards Beer Sheba.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">On the road south we were joined by civilian professional archaeologists and volunteers.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Some of
the volunteers were archaeology students others were volunteers visiting from
abroad.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Next at the dark of the evening we started a long
night trek on rugged field cars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
trailer was hitched to each all-terrain vehicle carrying supplies, food, communications
equipment and water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using helicopters was
unsafe because the noisy chopper will attract the attention of the hostile
neighboring Jordanian military and the chopper may be shot down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Our guide in the desert was a native Bedouin who
knew the terrain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He didn’t seem to need
a map.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was lost after the long night
travel in the rugged desert terrain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We set a tent base-camp in a location that looked
strange to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing like I ever saw
before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yellowish pointed rocks and cream
chalky mountains with steep canyon ending in a bottomless unseen abyss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anywhere I turned there was a steep canyon in
front of me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through one canyon I could
see a sliver view of the Dead Sea.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Together with us came a large man with a bushy
mustache that ended in spiraled thinning curled hair alongside each cheek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a navy shipmate whose expertise was
braiding rope ladders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the first
morning he set out to handcraft a rope ladder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In order to get into a cave in wall of the canyon
we’d need to step down 40 feet from the cliff using the rope ladder.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We reach descended the rope ladder carefully, very
carefully to protect our own dear life, or else we’ll land a thousand feet in
the abyss with a body shattered into red bloody splotched pieces of human
remains.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The cooks set up their field stove and started to
prepare from cans and preserves field meals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each one of us pitched a personal
tent in picnic style.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a brown
colored picnic scout tent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The creamy
brown <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>color of the tarp matched exactly
the color of elevated desert. My tent became my home and my clinic for the next
two weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also carried with me crates
of first aid supplies and medications.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We had an ambulance<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that chugged
along us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, a real life
threatening emergency will require calling a medivac chopper for quick evacuation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In the mornings we ate breakfast consisting of fried
eggs, toast and some last week vegetables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then we’ll each bring along with us our personal water canteen and
personal semiautomatic Uzi weapon and walk a narrow trail towards the edge of
the cliff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There we file in a line to
descend down the rope ladder holding to dear life, and entered the four
millennia old cave.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Inside the cave the digging was done using small
hand picks tools and baskets to carry the dirt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The dirt was sifted through a sieve to trap any possible minor finding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We moved about the cave with bent necks and lowered
head while our chins touching the chest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A careless move or too much movement created a cloud of dust that irritated
the windpipes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In the early afternoon we’ll start a slow climb back
up to the rim and walk to our little base-camp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We’ll take a face wash under a field shower-stall and grab dinner, eating
from metal pans.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Every evening after dinner we sat around a bonfire
under the stars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coarse ground coffee was
cooked Mediterranean style in a large metal pot over the camp fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Potatoes were roasted over the bonfire and we
either sang along or listen to stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The story-teller was our expedition leader – Pesach
Bar-Adon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For many years he lived among
the Arabs and Bedouins in Palestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
listened to their folk-stories and wrote a book with about their
folktales.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we were tired enough
went each to our tents to sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The digging started inside the cave on March 14,
1961.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a week of work not much came
up; no new archeological discoveries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
felt disappointed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Then on March 21, 1961 a student and another soldier
hit a crevice that opened up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through a
crack they saw some objects that they pulled out and then yelled “There are
some more”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">They kept on pulling out more and more artifacts
until it became best to stop because of the falling night and darkness in the
cave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was necessary to wait for a
professional camera and lighting to be brought in from another a camp the next
day in order to photograph and document the discovery process and the numerous
rich findings <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in situ</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The excitement was high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one could sleep that night.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Next morning with cameras in hand and place and
better equipment, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>more and more objects
were pulled out from the crack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Eventually 432 objects were uncovered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Most of them bronze and copper and some were ivory
tusks. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It turned out to be literally a treasure in the full
sense and the meaning of the word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The archeological world seized with this story of
discovery.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The artifacts were later dated by carbon-14 and determined
to have been manufactured in the chalcolithic period – sometime between 4,000
to 3,300 years BC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Over millennia many visitors came in and left the caves of the Judean Desert. It's plausible that many visited this particular cave. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The purpose and
utility of the objects remains a mystery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s a puzzle that remains unsolved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> In the last 58 years research work of many methodologies and modalities, was published. Some "scientific articles" carry blatant simple factual dating error on the day and time of the discovery.<br />All of it is speculative. </span>The original owners of the hoard are not known.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is thought that the artifacts were used for
religious rituals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some "authorities" reference the hoard to the Ghassulian culture. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Speculative.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">The majority of the hoard is on permanent display in
the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Some
representative artifacts are on display in the New York Metropolitan
Museum.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Here are LINKS to photographs and posts:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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