Pictures: Pagan-Cult Worship Objects Found

Rock-Hollow Discovery

Archaeologist Uzi Ad (right) helps to remove a ritual stand from a rock hollow during a dig of pagan-cult artifacts in northern Israel.

"There is nothing in the assemblage of vessels which gives any clue as to who was worshiped in this temple," said Ad's colleague, archaeologist Edwin van den Brink.

(See: "Ancient Pagan Temple Found in Israel.")

"Here in the southern Levant [Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian territories], writing was not yet developed in this 'protohistoric' period of around 1400 B.C."

Published June 16, 2010