With oval-shaped holes for eyes and a small ridge for a nose, the mask resembles something a 1970s hockey goalie (or Jason in “Friday the 13th”) might have worn.
But this mask was carved out of stone 9,000 years ago, perhaps in one of the world’s first farm towns.
The mask was discovered near Pnei Hever, an Israeli settlement east of Hebron in the West Bank. Ronit Lupu, an archaeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) told Live Science that a man had been walking through a field when he picked up the mask from the ground and eventually turned it over to the IAA’s Antiquities Theft Prevention Unit.
“This was an innocent find, and the person who found it was the person who showed us where he found it,” Lupu said. Read more.
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