Rescue workers picked up 900-year-old oil lamps at sea

When walking on the beach, a lifeguard accidentally picked up an old kerosene lamp with a "life expectancy" of about 900 years.

One morning, Ashkelon lifeguards in Israel   Walk on the beach in Tel Ashkelon National Park in the south of the country and discover a strange object. Ashkelon was amazed to learn that it was an old oil lamp .

'At the time of walking through the beach, many old wooden boards drifted ashore, some washed up on the cliffs and I accidentally picked up a strange object that was an old kerosene lamp on the sandy beach at my feet. - Ashkelon share.

Rescue workers picked up 900-year-old oil lamps at sea Picture 1 Photo source: Courtesy.

' This is an old kerosene lamp, about 900 years old, the lamp has signs of corrosion, old, mossy, the mouth of the lamp sticking with soot ' - Sa'ar Ganor, the archaeologist of the district Ashkelon said.

The lamp was washed up by the waves and lying on the sand for a long time, no one had ever seen it before.

Ashkelon explains: 'This kerosene lamp is an ancient object, reflecting the long-standing characteristic of the commercial life of the ancient local inhabitants about 900 years ago. The lights are lit, hanging in the ports every night when the ancient residents of Isarel import and export trade and purchase goods through the seaport ' .

Huynh Dung ( According to Jewishpress)