Government committee to decide whether to expand excavations at the site or go ahead with an underground canal that would divert flood water that descends on Amman from the surrounding hills.
Stone originally discovered in the 1960s was re-examined and researchers discovered it was used to grind materials, probably soft ones, to allow homonids to maximize the resources at their disposal.
Known as a termopolium, Latin for hot drinks counter, the shop was discovered in the archaeological park’s Regio V site, which is not yet open to the public. Traces of nearly 2,000-year-old food, including pork, fish, snails, and beef were found in some of the deep terra cotta jars containing hot food the shop keeper lowered into a counter with circular holes.
"These houses are our identity, but ignorance leads to their destruction," says Ahmed al-Astal, director of Iwan, the history and heritage institute of Gaza's Islamic University.
According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, this is the first archaeological evidence of its kind to exist in Gethsemane during the Second Temple period.
Volunteer Naomi Meir unearths glass candlestick dating from the Roman-Byzantine period during dig at Tel Usha in northern Israel.
Among the hundreds of intact ceramic oil lamps were two bearing the symbols of the menorah.
"It's not every day that we get to find a candle preserved in its entirety. We are all very excited," says Ari Levy, director of excavations for the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Located in Erzincan province on the historical Silk Road, the fortress is one of the most important Urartu settlements and an important center of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire.
Tourism and antiquities minister tells press that finds date back to Ptolemaic dynasty, which ruled Egypt for some 300 years, and the Late Period (664-332 BCE).