Written by Oscar Holland, CNNA huge Stone Age settlement unearthed outside Jerusalem may have been home to 3,000 people, the Neolithic equivalent of a large city, according to details released by the Israel Antiquities Authority on Tuesday. The discovery was made near the Israeli town of Motza, about three miles west of Jerusalem. And although the discovery of thousands of arrowheads showed that the inhabitants still hunted, unearthed animal bones also point to sheep husbandry. Part of the excavation site outside Motza, about three miles west of Jerusalem. Until now, however, the oldest "significant remains" in Jerusalem were from a 7,000-year-old site recently uncovered in the city's north.

Source: CNN July 17, 2019 11:15 UTC