Alendo odzadzacheza ku Yerusalemu chaka chamawa azitha kuwona zinthu zosoweka izi zolumikizidwa ndi nkhani ya Hanukkah. Anazipeza m’bokosi lakale lafumbi losungiramo zinthu ku Tower of David Museum ku Jerusalem. Zinthuzi zidzawonetsedwa kwa anthu kwa nthawi yoyamba m'zaka zopitilira 30.
Mivi yotetezedwa kumene, zipolopolo zoponyera, ndi miyala yotchedwa catapult ballista zinayamba mu Nyengo ya Ahasmonean pafupifupi zaka 2,200 zapitazo.
Limadziwikanso kuti Phwando la Kuwala, Hanukkah ndi tchuthi chapakati cha Ayuda chomwe chimaphatikizapo kuyatsa makandulo ndikudya zakudya zokoma zophikidwa mumafuta. Chaka chino chikondwererocho cha masiku asanu ndi atatu chidzayamba pa December 18 dzuŵa litaloŵa.
Imakumbukira kuperekedwanso kwa Kachisi Woyera ku Yerusalemu pa nthawi ya Kuukira kwa Maccabean, komwe kunachitika m'zaka za zana la 2 BCE. Pa nthawi ya kupandukako, Amakabe anamenyana ndi ufumu wa Seleucus.
Nkhani ya kupanduka ndi kuperekedwanso kwa kachisi wachiyuda komwe kunatsatira ndiyo nkhani yaikulu ya chikondwerero cha Hanukkah.
“Pakafukufuku wa mu 1982 ndi 1983, akatswiri ofukula zinthu zakale anapeza zinthu zambiri zakale zogwirizana ndi kuzingidwa kumene kunali kuchitika kuno ku Yerusalemu pamene wolamulira wa Ahasimoni John Hyrcanus anali kuno ndipo wolamulira wachigiriki wachiselukasi Antiochus VII anazinga mzindawo,” Reut Kozak, wofukula m’mabwinja pa bwaloli. Tower of David Museum, adauza The Media Line. “Tidapeza zida izi zochuluka kwambiri kuno. Izi sizinthu zomwe mumapeza kulikonse, zomwe zikutanthauza kuti panali nkhondo yofunika kwambiri yomwe inachitika kuno m'zaka za zana lachiŵiri BCE."
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ZOMWE MUNGACHITE PA NKHANIYI:
- “During excavations in 1982 and 1983, archaeologists discovered many artifacts connected to the siege that was taking place here in Jerusalem when the Hasmonean ruler John Hyrcanus was here and the Hellenistic Seleucid ruler Antiochus VII besieged the city,” Reut Kozak, an archaeologist at the Tower of David Museum, told The Media Line.
- Nkhani ya kupanduka ndi kuperekedwanso kwa kachisi wachiyuda komwe kunatsatira ndiyo nkhani yaikulu ya chikondwerero cha Hanukkah.
- An example of one of the 200 ballista stones that were launched by the Seleucids at Jerusalem during the Maccabean Revolt more than 2,000 years ago .
