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There are 6 comments on What Ancient Pottery Can Teach Us About Everyday Lives in the Time of Jesus and Herod the Great

  1. It is humbling to realize that someday an archaeologist may be digging up my house, finding my possessions, and speculating about what life may have been like back in the 21st Century.

  2. This article fails to mention that it was the JEWISH temple. It should read “named after the great Jewish temple in Jerusalem that the Romans destroyed in the first century BCE.”… why do people insist on erasing Jewish identity in Israel?

    1. Thanks for reading. According to Merriam-Webster, a sherd is “a fragment of a pottery vessel found on sites and in refuse deposits where pottery-making peoples have lived.” – The Brink team

  3. Interesting article and congratulations to the Professor. However, Judaism, though obviously very important, is not in the top three of the world’s religions as the article states. Hinduism and Buddhism have millions more adherents and have tremendous geopolitical importance globally and in Asia and South East Asia, the world’s most populous region. Even Sikkhism has double the number of followers.

  4. Not one mention of “Palestine” anywhere. This is what I think of every time I walk by the display cases in CAS, full of pottery shards from an indigenous people who are being wiped away, much as they have been erased from archaeology history.

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