analysis, and chemical and physical analysis.
So back to the palace.
We see another very symbolic find.
The potters wheel, as I was saying,
that it was used just for the vessels produced for the palace.
So there is this other issue that is innovation.
Innovation is brought by the palace.
The city is bringing up innovation,
because innovation means the capacity of controlling production, and
production is of course what makes the palace actually rich and power.
So they always invest in innovation.
And that time, innovation meant to use it a disc of basalt
to produce a better vessel, a more resistant and also more beautiful vessel.
Because there is also an aesthetic value which was given for
the first time a significance in the 3rd millennium B.C. And
you see here, speaking about aesthetics, that of course the Canaanites,
the people living in southern Levant, were attracted by the Egyptians.
The Egyptians were traveling back and
forth along the coast on the sea and in the Wadi Araba,
that is that valley which connects the Red Sea with the Dead Sea.
So this way was very important.
This has been called the copper route because it's the the way
through which you get the copper ores, the copper mines of and
what two very interesting places in the South of Jordan.
So along the route of copper, the Canaanites met the Egyptians.
And it was really a terrible spark because they were in touch
with a completely new and extraordinary civilization.
And they started to imitate some small items or
object which had a symbolic value in the Egyptian milieu and
the Egyptian concept of life,
which gained another one among the Canaanites.
And so we have the lotus flower.
You see here the imitation of one of the lotus flower produced in but
with an Egyptian style.
And look at the comparison from Megiddo, rrom Tell-el-Mutesellim.
And they started to import these palette which were used for
the makeup of women, but as a symbol of wealth,
a status symbol of social belonging to a high social class.
And of course mace heads, as you will see, and many other items.
Then, in the central of this Pillared Hall, we also found
the of a bear and possibly the skin of the bear.
So, the bear skin was a symbol of power, and symbol of military power in antiquity.
And possibly, as it was found together with four copper axes,
these were the weapons and the clothes of a military ruler, or
a military chief, that is the king of.
So again, we have the metal which point us that the disconnection to the South.
You see the moment in which these axes were found.
They were not very strong weapons, but they were symbolic weapons.
As the analysis demonstrate, it's just one,
the biggest specimen had been actually used.
The others were never used.
They just were there because they were a symbol of power.
So they were not used as weapons, but they were used just for symbols.
And they were gathered together with the bearskin.
So we have here a reconstruction of the hall as it looked like
at the time when the city was destroyed.
And what resulted from the very careful analysis
which was carried out in the [FOREIGN] of Rome,
which is one of the most skilled institution in the world for
studying antiquities.
In this way, and what came out was that these axes are in connection
with the two main sources of copper to the south,
pointing again to this connection through the Sinai Peninsula with Egypt.
And the map give an idea of all the circulation of goods and of people,
which occurred at that time and which was at the beginning of the city-state and
of the idea of city in a very far country such
as it was this region, that is central Jordan.
You see how many finds can a fire.