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Working in the fields, finding the head of a 4,500-year-old goddess

A farmer Palestine in strip Gaza discovered the head of a 4,500-year-old statue of Anat while working in the fields.

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The head of the 4,500-year-old statue was discovered by a Palestinian farmer while working in the fields

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CNN on April 27 reported a farmer Palestine in strip Gaza discovered the head of a 4,500-year-old statue while working in the fields.

Mr. Jamal Abu Rida, head of the agency Travel and Antiquities in the Gaza Strip, said in a press conference that the head was found in the city of Khan Younis.

“At first, I hoped to be able to sell it to someone to make some money. However, one archaeologist told me that it has great archaeological value,” the site said. The New Arab quoted Nidal Abu Eid, the farmer who discovered the head, as saying.

Antiquities officers concluded that the head belonged to a statue of the god Anat. According to Rida, Anat is the goddess of love, beauty, and war in Canaanite mythology.

The Canaanites were an ancient people that worshiped many gods. In the Bible, this group of people lived in Jerusalem and other regions of Middle East before monotheism emerged.

Mr. Rida called the statue “a symbol of the oldest human civilization living in Gaza City”.

The head has been on public display since April 26. Nariman Khaleh, an official with the antiquities agency, said the statue will be on display at the Pasha Palace Museum in Gaza in the next few days.

This is one of the few museums in Gaza. This place used to be an all-girls school before it was turned into a museum thanks to German funding.

Some believe that the Pasha Palace was built during the Mamluks, a Muslim dynasty that ruled Egypt and much of the Levant from the 13th to 15th centuries.

However, according to the United Nations Development Program, this structure was built by the Ottoman Empire.

Gaza hardly accepts foreign tourists because movement in and out of this area faces many restrictions.

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