Gold ring dug up in Jerusalem

(JNS) - A 2,300-year-old ring set has been discovered in Jerusalem's ancient City of David. It is the second such find at the same site within the last year, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Wednesday.

The small size of the ring, gold and set with a red gemstone, indicates that it belonged to a youngster living in Jerusalem during the Second Temple period more than two millennia ago, the state-run archaeological body said.

The member of the excavation team who found the previous ring initially thought it was a modern piece of jewelry that had been dropped by someone working on the...