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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>Archeologists began using magnetic surveying techniques in the 1950s, with advances in technology and the accumulation of data enabling them to receive more and more precise information about ancient archeological sites, and to find out other interesting information \u2013 like the state of Earth\u2019s magnetic field thousands of years ago.<\/p>\n

An interdisciplinary team of scientists led by researchers from Hebrew University and the University of Tel Aviv have used a archaeomagnetic dating technique to categorize the \u2018footprint\u2019 left behind on artifacts by Earth\u2019s magnetic field to more exactly determine the dates that ancient Middle Eastern cities mentioned in the Bible were destroyed.<\/p>\n

In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, the collective of scientists, led by Tel Aviv University Institute of Archeology doctoral student Yoav Vaknin, explained that the classification and categorization of ancient brickwork, stonework and other man-made materials accurately dated using magnetic dating techniques can help determine the time of destruction of other man-made objects which have not.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy combining precise historical information with advanced, comprehensive archeological research, we were able to base the magnetic method on reliably anchored chronology,\u201d study coauthor Dr. Oded Lipschits added.<\/p>\n

The researchers\u2019 database has recorded geomagnetic field data in 21 layers of historical ruins at 17 archeological sites across Israel, allowing for Biblical accounts on battles between the ancient Judean kingdoms and their Egyptian, Aramean, Assyrian and Babylonian rivals to be precisely dated and corroborated.<\/p>\n

The 20 person interdisciplinary team of scientists involved in the study included archeologists, earth scientists, historians, antiquarians and Biblical scholars.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt all fits perfectly \u2013 better than I could even imagine \u2013really proving the power of this method,\u201d Vaknin said in an interview with Israeli media on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The researchers discovered for example that the army of King Hazael of Aram-Damascus was singlehandedly responsible for the destruction of Tel Rehov, Tel Zaiyt and Horvat Tevet, plus Gath, a major Iron Age Philistine city.<\/p>\n

Dr. Erez Ben Yosef, one of the study\u2019s coauthors, said that the database may finally help put to rest many decades of debate about the fate of the Kingdom of Judah and how it came to be destroyed.<\/p>\n

The latter settlements were likely destroyed several decades later, \u201cprobably by the Edomites who took advantage of the fall of Jerusalem,\u201d the academic said.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. Archeologists began using magnetic surveying techniques in the 1950s, with advances in technology and the accumulation of data enabling them to receive more and more precise information about ancient archeological sites, and to find out other interesting information \u2013 like the state of Earth\u2019s magnetic field thousands of years ago. 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