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A copper awl, the oldest metal object found to date in the Middle East, was discovered during the excavations at Tel Tsaf, Israel. From the late 6th millennium or the early 5th millennium BCE, it moves back by several hundred years the date it was thought that peoples of the region began to use metals.

Archaeologists at Tel Aviv University recently discovered that domesticated camels are not the Israeli invention that the Bible makes them out to be. Their findings have allowed them to push the date of Israeli domesticated camels back from the 12th century BCE to the 9th century BCE.