the agreement, while 13 voted against it and five abstained.

Officials familiar with the developments say Bhutan has been pushing for a cap on vehicles entering its territory for some time. Such discussions came up during the transport officials’ meeting in Dhaka in March.Wheaton College (right) and Larry Stager of Harvard University (center), and Israel Museum Director James Snyder (left) speak at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem on July 10, 2016. (Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)

The announcement was timed to coincide with the opening of an Israel Museum exhibit showcasing finds spanning 6,000 years from Ashkelon at the Rockefeller. Among the items on display are 3,800-year-old city gates, gold and silver jewelry demonstrating its commercial prominence, and a Roman marble slab etched with Crusader and Fatimid inscriptions.

Throughout much of its 22 layers of settlement, Ashkelon was a “great seaport,” situated on the Mediterranean and on the main coastal trade route,” Harvard University’s Larry Stager, co-director of the dig, said. It was significantly larger than cities inland during the Bronze and