The 9,000-year-old limestone masks think to be the world's oldest mildstone masks.They have been made to look like the spirits of dead ancestors and it is possible that they were used in religious or traditionals ceremonies.The masks have round gaps displays of noses, eyes and teeth.
The 9,000 year old masks have found near Jerusalem and offer a rare glimpse of some of civilisation's first communal rituals.They were found in the range of about 20-mile in Jerusalem where the Judean hills meet the Judean desert.Each mask stone weights about one or two kg.
James Snyder, said all of the masks were discovered near Jerusalem."It's quite exciting," said James Snyder, director of the Israel Museum, which is hosting the seven-month exhibit."When you go back to objects that are this old, that are so much before the theology that becomes Judaism, Christianity and then Islam, to feel that there is a kind of a connection, that this is all part of a continuous story, is something that is pretty thrilling."
"The masks dated back to the creators of civilisation",Debby Hershman said, the exhibition's curator.Hershman also said that the people who created the masks were the creators of civilization and were first farmers."
It took 10 years of carbon-14 testing for experts to decide origin of the collection, the Associated Press news agency reports.
The Face to Face exhibition opens for public from March 11 to September 13 at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
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