Archaeologists: Bible Wrong About Camels

Archaeologists have discovered that camels were not domesticated much later than depicted in the Bible.

The researchers, Erez Ben-Yosef and Lidar Sapir-Hen, said carbon dating of ancient camel bones places them in the latter part of the 10th century B.C., centuries after they were described as pack animals during the Old Testament stories of Abraham, Jacob and Joseph.

The bones were found during multiple excavations in the Aravah Valley, located along the border between Israel and Jordan, an ancient hub for copper production, which the researchers said points to the introduction of domesticated camels to the region by Egyptians.

“The introduction of the camel to our region was a very important economic and social development,” Ben-Yosef was quoted as saying. “By analyzing archaeological evidence from the copper production sites of the Aravah Valley, we were able to estimate the date of this event in terms of decades rather than centuries.”

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.