A handful of 3000-year-old 'male' clay heads unearthed in Israel may reveal the earliest depiction of God's face, an archaeologist says. One head was discovered a decade ago in Khirbet Qeiyafa, about 20 miles from Tel Motza where Shua Kisilevitz and Oded Lipschits uncovered two others earlier this year. Following the news from Tel Motza, Garfinkle began to wonder if the clay heads were related, is this a god and if so, which one? The other clay heads found in Tel Motza were pulled from a temple near Jerusalem and due to the biblical instructions that banned such images, the team proposes the area was used to worship a variety of different gods – 'not just Yahweh.' He also argues that the ban on creating images of Yahweh was not adopted until the 10th century, when the clay heads were in use.

Source: Daily Mail July 31, 2020 19:19 UTC