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Chalcolithic smiths had determined that naturally occurring arsenic-laced copper was shinier and easier to work than the unalloyed metal. The discovery contributed to the extraordinary beauty of their ceremonial objects, jewelry and vessels, exemplified by the Judean desert treasures -- a cache of objects found in a cave in 1961. "Their art was versatile, so beautiful, so different from anything that came before or after," says Miriam Tadmor, senior curator at Jerusalem's Israel Museum. Indeed, in the opinion of her colleague Osnat Misch, "the culture of the later Bronze Age was inferior aesthetically...
...That goal seemed to kill us emotionally," Harvard Coach Sue Caples said. "We seemed to lose our confidence and cave in. It was all down-hill from there...
...Israel often uncover artifacts that date to biblical times. Rarely, however, do they stumble across the people who inhabit the Scriptures. But workers building a water park south of the Old City of Jerusalem may have performed precisely that feat two years ago when they uncovered a burial cave. As reported in this week's issue of Biblical Archaeology Review by Zvi Greenhut, Jerusalem's chief archaeologist, the cave is the final resting place for the Caiaphas family, whose most famous member was the high priest who, according to the Gospels, handed Jesus over to the Romans for crucifixion...
Within the cave Greenhut found 12 ossuaries, or bone boxes, dating to the 1st century. Six of the limestone containers had been disturbed by grave robbers. But one of the intact ossuaries bore the inscription "Yehosef bar Qayafa," or Joseph, son of Caiaphas, and included the remains of a woman, a man of about 60 and four children. The outside of the ossuary is decorated in a rare and intricate pattern of concentric circles and rosettes, perhaps befitting a priest's tomb. After almost 2,000 years, however, it is impossible to know for sure...
Bubble is plunged into a hallucinatory, gory and frequently pornographic world of outrageously sterotyped Black characters. James' jokes hurtle by at a furious pace: Bubbles travels to the Isle of the Unrestrained Negroes, negotiates the Cave of the Flaming Tar Babies and survives attacks from the Flapjack Ninja-kilers from Hell, some Negroid Vomitoids and a lascivious crew of Muppet B-Boys...