A Bronze Age jar used to bury a baby 3,800 years ago is among a trove of items found by archaeologists in Israel after they excavated the ancient port of Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv.
They include burials, homes and pottery from the ancient Greek and Roman periods, Crusader fortifications, 19th-century Ottoman cannonballs and items dating from the British mandate of Palestine between 1920 and 1948. Buttons lost by British soldiers in the Second World War were also unearthed.
Digs overseen by the Israeli Antiquities Authority have been conducted over the past decade at five locations in the ancient city, according to the latest edition of the journal Atiqot.
The earliest find was the burial of an infant dating from the Middle Bronze
