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Ancient skeletons identified
JliKl SAUA1 (A!’) A radiocarbon dating
test has determined lhnt 25 skeletons un
earthed al ihr am lent fortress of Masada are
probably Jewish retiels who committed suicide
rather than surrender in Romo In the year 73, a
scientist said Snnda\
The skeletons were uncovered 25 years ago,
liiit since it was assumed they were lows, they
were immediately reburied as ludaisin re
quires, said Israel darmi, head of the
tade ( arli n dating Inh at the VVeizmann Insti
lute ol Science
Archunologists later suggested the skeletons
may have belonged to Byzantine monks who
lived on the flat-topped mountain during the
7th (amtury.
The Wot/mann Institute was asked to i arlton
dati lemnants of fabric found with the skrde
tons. Carnii said Radiocarbon dating estimates
the age of organic or carbon containing materi
als b\ measuring the radioactivity of carbon.
file test found the skeletons dated to 77
A 1) . with .1 margin of error of )7 years
'This shows unequlvoi ally that the date of
the skeletons falls within the period of the
((•wish rebellion," Carmi said.
Masada, in the Judean Desert in eastern Isra
el, is w here the last Jewish mho Is against Ro
man rule held out for three years and oo'nimtt
tad mass suicide rather than submit to slavery
Joe Zias. an anthropologist with Israel's An
t uplines Authority, said lh< Wei/mann Insti
tute's findings lend more credence to the ac
i,ulit ot the mass suu ido on Masada
Historian Josephus Flavius, who lived dur
ing the Roman invasion, described in detail
how not) men, women and children under
siege at Masada i nmmitted mass sun ide with
swords and knives
"Until now. Josephus' account constituted
the only record of the mass suicide story."
Zias s.nd in a new s release from the Wei/mann
Institute
Mozambique, S. Africa share refuge
J( >H ANN! SIU R< i. South Africa (AIM South
Aba a and Mozambique are making plans to
; re.ilo a large game reserve straddling their
horder,a newspaper reported Sunday.
Thf Sunday Times said .1 preliminary plan
(.alls for merging South 'Africa's H,000-acre
Kruger Park in tin country's northeast corner
with a J,000-ncre tract in Mozamhitjue
Kelaiions between the long-hostile neighbors
have improved in recent years, and talks on
the proposed park are planned for this week in
Pretoria, South Africa's capital, the newspaper
reported
Belize celebrates 10th birthday
Dhl.IZP (ilTY. Belize (AP) - When tiny Belize
marked 10 years of Independence from Britain
on Saturday, it had good reason for cheer
Neighboring Guatemala has dropped claims on
its soil and the economy is booming.
But the ( cntral American nation on the ( a
ribbean coast isn’t free from all ills. Its popu
larity as ,i stopover for drug traffic kers and a
flow of refugees am raising concerns about in
t reased crime and strained resources.
Prime Minister George Price told a crowd
braving a drenching rain that Guatemala's de
cision this month to recognize Belize and drop
territorial claims signals "the end of a bygone
ora
"Belize is now able to take its rightful place
,is a Caribbean nation in Central Amerii a," the
premier said, standing on it courthouse steps
in the old capital of this New Hampshire-sized
oountrv with a population ol 190,000
Price told the crowd of about .!()() people
that "much has been done to meet the basic
human needs of our people Vet more is to be
done."
An honor guard of British troops and mem
bers ol Belize's small force was reviewed bv
the Queen's representative, Governor-General
Dame Vtinite Gordon, as a band played "Feel
mgs."
When d first broke from Britain in 19H1, tin
former British Honduras had a rough econom
ic start since prices for one of its main exports,
sugar, were low and the global economy was
slumping
But per i apita income has roughly doubled
over the past decade to reach SI.BOO because
i f new investments, tourism to the barrier reef
islands and the Colombian drug trade that
uses Belize as a transit point.
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