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Archaeological Hot Spots

A roundup of digs in Israel

By Hershel Shanks

In an oft-repeated story that the Patent Office denies, a 19th-century Commissioner of Patents announced that he would retire because everything that could be invented would soon be invented. I was reminded of this story as I traveled from dig to dig in Israel recently. Hasn’t everything been dug up already? You would think so. But in fact there is no end to it, even in Jerusalem, the most excavated city in the world. Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist Ronny Reich took us to his new excavation—more accurately, re-excavation—at the southern part of the western wall of the Temple Mount. […]

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Footnotes

1.

See Aaron Demsky, “When the Priests Trumpeted the Onset of the Sabbath,” BAR 12:06; and Kathleen Ritmeyer and Leen Ritmeyer, “Reconstructing Herod’s Temple Mount in Jerusalem,” BAR 15:06.

2.

See Menahem Magen, “Recovering Roman Jerusalem—The Entryway Beneath Damascus Gate,” BAR 14:03.

3.

See “Babylonian Tablet Confirms Biblical Name,” BAR 20:05.

4.

See Trude Dothan, “Ekron of the Philistines, Part 1: Where They Came From, How They Settled Down and the Place They Worshiped In,” BAR 16:01, and Seymour Gitin, “Ekron of the Philistines, Part 2: Olive-Oil Suppliers to the World,” BAR 16:02.

5.

See Joan Scheuer, “Searching for the Phoenicians in Sardinia,” BAR 16:01.