Israel building center for ancient artifacts
Israel building center for ancient artifacts
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is building a national archaeological center to store and showcase its rich collection of some two million ancient artifacts, including the world’s largest collection of Dead Sea Scrolls, Israel’s Antiquities Authority said today. Most of Israel’s state antiquities collection, currently stored in large warehouses that are closed to the public, will be moved to a new 35,000-square-meter (377,000 square foot) center — the Antiquities Authority’s first public center for exhibiting its hoard of treasures that date back as far as 5,000 years. Parts of the center will be open to the public.