We begin with reports from the field. Tel Burna has posted photos of their finds from Week 2. The Jezreel Expedition has completed its first season. Omrit wrapped up its season with the possible discovery of a bath complex. Work and discoveries continue at Ashkelon. Reports and photos from the first couple weeks at Bethsaida are posted. The team at Bethsaida is hoping to reveal a 10th-century gate this season and they have posted reports from Week 1 and Week 2. Excavations are scheduled to begin tomorrow at Tiberias, Khirbet Qeiyafa, Tel Hazor, Kfar HaHoresh, Tel ‘Eton, and Tel Bet Yerah.
The New York Times has a travel piece on the four-day hike through Galilee on the Jesus Trail.
The pilot study for the Arch of Titus Digital Restoration Project has concluded and results have been announced.
Aren Maeir has posted three short videos on: (1) food in Philistine and Israelite society; (2) Philistine religion; (3) work in the archaeological lab.
National Geographic has photos of gold treasures recently found in Israel.
Claude Mariottini notes the publication of The Iron Age I Structure on Mt. Ebal, by Ralph K.
Hawkins. Had another publisher released this work, it would have been certainly included “Joshua’s altar” in the title.
A study by Norwegian archaeologists has revealed how the great city of Palmyra could exist in the middle of the Syrian desert.
Wayne Stiles describes each of the 8 gates of the Old City of Jerusalem, providing a photo with each one as well as video footage of General Allenby entering Jaffa Gate.
Google is sponsoring a project to read some unrollable Dead Sea Scrolls. A video shows how the technology works.
The Times of Israel has more information on the tomb robbers caught in the act of plundering an antiquities site near Modiin.
HT: David Coppedge, Joseph Lauer
2 thoughts on “Weekend Roundup”
Never believe everything you read in the press. I do not consider dolmens even remotely related to the calendar, despite what the article says. Stone circles with standing menhirs are a separate item, ripe for study related to solar-lunar alignments.
Dolmens are funerary monuments whose exact function is still uncertain.
I regre the confusion in the article.
David – thank you for the note. I think that I will just delete the link to the article so as to avoid further confusion.