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The 10,500-year-old basket as found in Muraba‘at Cave.

27. 6,000-year-old skeleton of a girl or a boy who was buried wrapped in cloth.

Archaeologists Hagay Hamer and Oriah Amichai sieving finds at the entrance to the Cave of Horror.

Rappelling into the so-called Cave of Horror.

21. Sections of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets scroll discovered in the Judean Desert expedition prior to their conservation. Photo: Shai Halevi, Israel Antiquities Authority

This 9,000-year-old limestone mask was recently recovered by Israeli anti-looting authorities.

Holes drilled around the circumference of the mask lead some researchers to suggest that it was designed to be tied to a face or an object.