The Palestinian Ministry of Antiquities said archaeologists working on a 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery discovered in Gaza last year have found at least 125 tombs, most of them still largely intact skeletons, and two rare lead coffins. The impoverished land of Palestine has been an important trading center for civilizations since the ancient Egyptians and Philistines portrayed in the Bible, through the Roman Empire and the Crusades.

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