Children’s Footprints and Painted Murals Preserved at Site Linked to Biblical Exodus | The Art Newspaper
Fields near modern Qantir - ancient Pi-Ramesses. Photo: Henning Franzmeier. |
The team, from the Roemer- und Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim, uncovered fragments of a large painted wall that was used to fill an ancient mortar pit. Due to the size of the motifs, the scenes may originally have decorated the entrance to a temple, a chapel, or were perhaps from a nearby palace, says the field team’s director, Henning Franzmeier.
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