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This handout photo provided by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) shows pottery heads of 'pillar' figurines, Jerusalem and other Judean sites. Iron Age II , 8th-6th century BCE. The Museum of the Bible, now under construction in Washington, will feature ancient artifacts and treasures from the Holy Land under a new deal with the Israel Antiquities Authority. (Israel Antiquities Authority/Meidad Suchowolski via AP
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This handout photo provided by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) shows glass vessels, Burial Tomb cave Akeldama, Jerusalem, early Roman Period. The Museum of the Bible, now under construction in Washington, will feature ancient artifacts and treasures from the Holy Land under a new deal with the Israel Antiquities Authority. (Israel Antiquities Authority/Meidad Suchowolski via AP)
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This photo made available May 22, 2012, shows a detail of a seal bearing the name "Bethlehem" in ancient Hebrew script. The Israel Antiquities Authority says archeologists digging at a Jerusalem site have found the oldest artifact that bears the inscription of Bethlehem — a 2,700-year-old seal with the name of Jesus' traditional birthplace. (Associated Press/Clara Amit, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)
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An Israel Antiquities Authority restorer displays a Christian icon box dating to the Byzantine era and made of bone with a cross carved on the lid. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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A worker at the Israel Antiquities Authority discusses one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek documents found in Judean Desert caves in the 1940s. Google and the IAA plan to put them on a searchable database. (Associated Press)
