{"id":1455976,"date":"2022-04-27T19:44:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T23:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1455976"},"modified":"2022-04-27T19:44:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T23:44:50","slug":"farmer-discovers-4500-year-old-goddess-statue-belonging-to-biblical-people-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/farmer-discovers-4500-year-old-goddess-statue-belonging-to-biblical-people-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer Discovers 4,500-Year-Old Goddess Statue Belonging To Biblical People Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffarmer-discovers-4500-year-old-goddess-statue-belonging-to-biblical-people-group%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1455976&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/Canaanite-Goddess-scaled-e1651101147711.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>A 4,500-year-old stone statue of the head of Canaanite goddess Anat was found by a Palestinian farmer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The idol was revealed to the public on Tuesday, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/style\/article\/gaza-canaanite-goddess-statue-scli-intl-scn\/index.html\"><span>according<\/span><\/a><span> to CNN, after it was found by farmer <\/span><span>Nidal Abu Eid<\/span><span> when working his land near<\/span><span> Khan Younis, a city in the southern Gaza Strip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAt first, I hoped to sell it to someone to make some money,\u201d he told The New Arab, \u201cbut an archaeologist told me that it was of great archaeological value.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The goddess Anat was the Canaanites\u2019 goddess of love, beauty, and war, according to Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Director Jamal Abu Rida. The statue of Anat is nearly nine inches tall and shows the goddess wearing a serpent for a crown, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-61228553\"><span>according<\/span><\/a><span> to the BBC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Canaanites were a biblical people who came from the line of Noah\u2019s son Canaan. They occupied the land God promised to Abraham and were eventually driven out in Israel\u2019s conquest of the \u201cPromised Land.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The age and discovery of the idol of Anat fits with the biblical timeline and its description of the Canaanites as wicked people in the sight of God. The first of the Ten Commandments <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Exodus%2020&#038;version=ESV\"><span>tells<\/span><\/a><span> God\u2019s people, \u201cYou should have no other gods before me,\u201d and the second commandment prohibits people from worshiping a \u201cgraven image.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The discovery of the Anat idol is evidence of the Canaanites breaking those commandments and offending God. Their disobedience resulted in the Israelites driving them out of the land where they lived, according to the biblical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Judges+2%3A2&#038;version=ESV\">account<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to Rida, the statue discovered by the farmer is <\/span><span>a \u201c<\/span><span>symbol for the oldest human civilization that lived in Gaza City.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The BBC reported, \u201c<\/span><span>On social media, some Gazans are making wry comments suggesting the goddess\u2019s association with war seems apt. In recent years, they have seen a series of devastating flare-ups in the conflict between Israel and militant groups in Gaza, which is governed by Hamas.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The farmer told reporters, \u201cWe found it by chance. It was muddy and we washed it with water.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe thank God, and we are proud that it stayed in our land, in Palestine, since the Canaanite times,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The statue of Anat is now displayed in one of Gaza\u2019s only museums.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Other historical artifacts have been found in Gaza in recent years. In 2013, a fisherman found a 2,500-year-old statue that historians believe was of the Greek god Apollo. However, the statue mysteriously disappeared after going up for sale on eBay, the BBC <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-26275578\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In February, construction workers in Gaza found 31 Roman-era tombs estimated to be as old as 2,000 years while building a residential area, per <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-xl\/news\/other\/gaza-construction-workers-find-31-roman-era-tombs\/ar-AAU7SNg\"><span>AFP<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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