Was the ancient Negev “a kind of Paradise Lost situated between the granaries of plenty known as Egypt and the country ‘flowing with milk and honey’ called Canaan?” American archaeologist Nelson Glueck of Hebrew Union College asked this question more than 30 years ago when he began to explore the Negev desert. In the mid-1970’s, armed with new questions—and new, anthropological perspectives—Thomas E. Levy began a systematic survey of the major drainage system of the northern Negev. “How Ancient Man First Utilized Rivers in the Desert” tells of the remarkable discoveries made by that large-scale survey. Levy was born […]
