3,800-Year-Old Statue Resembling ‘The Thinker’ Found in Israel

NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR

The fully-restored 3,800-year-old jug with a human statue that resembles Auguste Rodin’s “The Thinker” was found in Yehud, Israel.
ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY / CLARA AMIT EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

Reading this article right now, you might resemble this 3,800-year old statue resting its cheek upon its hand. It’s a common pose for computer browsing, but a rare sight in Bronze Age pottery.

A group of high school students helped archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority unearth this clay vessel in the city of Yehud near Tel Aviv in September. They were excavating a burial site when someone came across the seven-inch statue covered in dirt and surrounded by ceramic shards.

“It was a very exciting moment for me and the other archaeologists who came to see it, and for the other students and workers,” said Gilad Itach, an archaeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority and a doctoral candidate in archaeology at Bar-Ilan University. “For the best of our knowledge, no such jug had ever been found before.”

Archeologists in Yehud, Israel, found a jug from the Bronze Age featuring a statue of a man who appears to be in a thinking position.
ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY / EYECON PRODUCTIONS EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

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