1908–1935, remains of luxury furniture made of wood and ivory were discovered in Samaria, representing the Levant's most important collection of ivory carvings from the early first millennium BC. Despite theories of their Phoenician origin, some of the letters serving as fitter's marks are in Hebrew. As of 1999 three series of coins have been found that confirm Sinuballat was a governor of Samaria. Sinuballat is best known as an adversary of Nehemiah from the Book of Nehemiah where he is said to have sided with Tobiah the Ammonite and Geshem the Arabian. All three coins feature a warship on the front, likely derived from earlier Sidonian coins. The reverse side depicts the Persian King in his kandys robe facing down a lion that is standing on its hind legs. Other ancient sites The Bull Site, an Iron I cult site Tel Dothan near Jenin, identified with biblical Dothan Khirbet Kurkush, site of an ancient Samaritan or Jewish settlement with a notable necropolis Khirbet Samara, site of an ancient Samaritan synagogue Nablus area: Mount Gerizim, Samaritan and Byzantine ruins Mount Ebal site, Iron Age remains on Mount Ebal, seen by many scholars as an early Israelite cultic site Tell Balata, identified as biblical Shechem Khirbet Seilun/Tel Shiloh, identified with Shiloh (biblical city) Tell el-Far'ah (North), identified with biblical Tirzah, the third capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel. Samaritans The Samaritans (Hebrew: Shomronim) are an ethnoreligious group named after and descended from ancient Semitic inhabitants of Samaria, since the Assyrian exile of the Israelites, according to and first-century historian Josephus. Religiously, the Samaritans are adherents of Samaritanism, an Abrahamic religion closely related to Judaism. Based on the Samaritan Torah, Samaritans claim their worship is the true religion of the ancient Israelites prior to the Babylonian exile, preserved by those who remained behind. Their temple was built at Mount Gerizim in the middle of the 5th century BCE, and was destroyed under the Hasmonean king John Hyrcanus of Judea in 110 BCE, although their descendants still worship among its ruins. The antagonism between Samaritans and Jews is important in understanding the Bible's New Testament stories of the "Samaritan woman at the well" and "Parable of the Good Samaritan". The modern Samaritans, however, see themselves as co-equals in inheritance to the Israelite lineage through Torah, as do the Jews, and are not antagonistic to Jews in modern times. See also Archevites Samaritan