Students on northern Israel field trip stumble onto 1,500-year-old lioness carving | The Times of Israel
![The basalt carving of a lioness suckling her young discovered at Ein Nashut by students on a field trip on March 1, 2023, in ancient Israel. (courtesy Mordechai Aviam)](https://moderntraditional.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/D79CD791D799D790D794-D790D795D7A4D7A7D799-640x400-1.jpeg)
A group of students taking a class on the history of early Jewish villages in northern Israel became part of the story they were studying last week after stumbling across a 1,500-year-old carved lioness sculpture that likely adorned an ancient synagogue.Prof. Mordechai Aviam of the Kinneret Academic College on the Sea of Galilee was leading…