"Magic artifacts" found on a centuries-old way of pilgrimage to Mecca

Archeologists analysed a number of artifacts from pilgrim camp in Israel. New research showed that some 400-year artifacts found on the former Muslim pilgrim route from Egypt to Arabian Peninsula, probably, were used for "magic rituals" or ceremonies. Archeologists found a collection of artifacts in Eilat, the region in the south Israel. Among subjects there were some clay subjects, including a figure of the nude woman (probably, goddesses) with the raised hands, tiny altars for smoking, fragments of rattles, figures of animals and a set...