Pieces of religious manuscripts written in Hebrew were discovered in a synagogue in Tagadirt, a village near Akka (south-east of Morocco), by Israeli, Moroccan and French archaeologists, said Le Figaro newspaper on Saturday.
Built of mud in the pre-Saharan architectural tradition, and nestled in the middle of the Jewish neighborhood of Mellah, the synagogue was saved in extremis from ruins, said Moroccan archaeologist Saghir Mabrouk.
The archaeologists found fragments of religious books, amulets and other objects buried under the bimah, as well as letters, commercial and marriage contracts, everyday utensils and coins, reported Le Figaro.
The synagogue was beginning to fall into ruin when looters tried to steal the buried treasure, but fortunately most of the objects were saved, including 100,000 fragments of manuscripts or amulets, said the French media.