New Mansion found in Israel

AP
MATTI FRIEDMAN
Dec 6, 2007

"Israeli archaeologists uncovered a 2,000-year-old mansion believed to have been home to ueen Helene of Adiabene, whose clan ruled a region now in Iraq.

The remains of the building were unearthed just outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, underneath layers of a more recent settlement that was hidden until recently under the asphalt of a small parking lot in east Jerusalem..."

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