© TEL SHIMRON EXCAVATIONS/PHOTO BY TAL GLUCK

PERCHED HIGH ABOVE the Jezreel Valley on the Nazareth Ridge, Tel Shimron witnessed the rise of ancient Israel, Jewish Galilee, rabbinic Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. University of Reading Ph.D. candidate Jessie Feito operates a total station to measure spatial coordinates in a residential area occupied during the Roman and later Byzantine/Umayyad periods.