04-27-2022, 08:34 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-61228553 
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(Source: Rushdi Abalouf / Above article)
A stone statue of an ancient goddess of beauty, love and war has been found in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian archaeologists say that the head of the Canaanite deity, Anat, dates back 4,500 years to the late Bronze Age.
The discovery was made by a farmer digging his land in Khan Younis, in the south of the strip.
On social media, some Gazans are making wry comments suggesting the goddess's association with war seems apt.
In recent years, they have seen a series of devastating flare-ups in the conflict between Israel and militant groups in Gaza, which is governed by Hamas.
Odd how this deity was a goddess of both love and war... they seem like completely different things to me
. I wonder how common that was in polytheistic civilisations across the world?Also, I love it when these things are found by accident, by some random person
. I wonder whether it was just the head that was made - or whether this statue originally had a body to go with it?
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