Yuval Ben-Ami, an author and former online food critic for Haaretz, said the recipes in the book were contemporary.

"The Trojan was smart enough to be able to look at the [victim's] bank balance," says Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO of Finjan.

"The new find, together with other discoveries of recent years, shows that the city was considerably larger than what we previously estimated," Yuval Baruch, Jerusalem district archaeologist, said.