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timesofisrael.com on 2020-08-16 12:54

Earliest soap factory in Israel, discovered in Negev, shows seeds of early Islam

In accord with Muslim roots, 1,200-year-old industrial soap factory uses olive oil as its base, as opposed to lard found in soaps of Europe of the same era

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