Eretz Israel Museum - Nechushtan Pavilion

Nechushtan Pavilion

Inside the pavilion, visitors find themselves in a reconstructed mine from the Chalcolithic period and the Late Bronze Age, showing marks of mining tools such as stone hammers, flint blades and copper chisels.

Four smelting furnaces are on display:

• Bowl furnace from the Chalcolithic period (4th millennium BCE)
• Domed furnace of the Late Bronze Age (14th–13th centuries BCE)
• Authentic Late Bronze Age furnace (12th century BCE)
• Shaft furnace of the Iron Age (10th century BCE).

Remnants of a glass furnace from the 13th century CE were discovered alongside the Crusader fortress at Sommelaria, north of Acre.