The Palestinian fiftieth Ramadan Ahmed did not expect that hundreds of stone pieces he began collecting 13 years ago from all over the Gaza Strip and put them inside his house in the south of the Gaza Strip, will be of great value only after recently seen by experts in the field, to discover that some of them are archaeological and rare. The Islamic University Museum in Gaza also provided around 300 pieces of rare and ancient stones and rocks that it collected.

The man was collecting stones and rocks that were striking from the Israeli settlement area in the southern city of Khan Younis (from which Israel withdrew in 2005 as part of the unilateral disengagement plan).

Presented to the Department of History and Archeology at the Islamic University of Gaza to discover that it has great value (Anatolia)

Old and rare stones
He decided to present it to experts in this field, including the head of the Department of History and Archeology at the Islamic University in Gaza Ghassan Wishah and Jordanian archaeologist Ghassan Shaker, to discover that it has great value because of the old and scarcity of others.

The house of the Palestinian stone collector can no longer accommodate the pieces he has collected over many years. It is currently over a ton and a half tons, part of which has been placed on wooden shelves, others on the floor, some of which have been distributed to the rooms of the house.

An aficionado of stones upset people who do not know the value of stones and rocks (Anatolia)

The amateurs are unhappy with people who do not know the value of stones and rocks that are found in the remote areas of the Strip, and they collect them and break them into small gravel used in the construction process. He informed the competent authorities in the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in Gaza about this, and the latter sent a police force to prevent some of what is happening.

The collection of Ahmad includes stones painted with strange shapes from ancient times (Anatolia)

Fingerprint, shale and onyx Yemeni
Among the precious stones and rocks found by the Palestinian Ahmed Hajar stone onyx (a kind of precious stones), a stone shale and a copy of which is found in a museum in Saudi Arabia, in addition to crystal stones and transparent.

Ahmed's collection includes the famous footprint stone, the lunar meteorite stone, one of the rarest species in the world, stones painted with strange shapes dating back to ancient times, rocks meteorites space, in addition to a rock wheat mill more than 160 years old.

Ahmed has a good experience in polishing rocks using a special machine to acquire a beautiful soft texture (Anatolia)

The Palestinian stone collector is still practicing his hobby to this day, going from time to time to the seashore, and factories that break rocks and convert to gravel used in construction, in addition to buying some rare stone pieces from popular markets.

In addition to his hobby, Ahmad gained a good experience in polishing the rocks without damaging them using a special machine, to acquire a fine soft texture after refining them. He hopes to find a place to display the collection of distinctive and rare stone pieces for people to see and realize their archaeological and historical value.