We finished this season’s last full workday at the site. Tomorrow we will arrive at the usual early time to clean & brush off the excavated areas for final photography. The site photos will be in the published reports for this season’s work. After photography is complete, we should finish packing up and head back [...]
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Our Last Full Excavation Day
Posted in General Archaeology, Israel, Links to interesting stuff, Overseas trips, tagged Archaeology, Elah Fortress, Israel, Khirbet Qeiyafa, Links to interesting stuff on August 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Want to Excavate an Ancient Drain?
Posted in General Archaeology, Israel, Overseas trips, Short videos, tagged Archaeology, Elah Fortress, Khirbet Qeiyafa, travel on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After 3 days of working primarily with a wheelbarrow, I got to return to a job requiring a bit more finesse - excavating an ancient city drain channel. This task may seem dubious when one contemplates what flowed through an ancient drain in the absence of an indoor plumbing system. But a drain may yield a good [...]
Walking through Hezekiah’s Tunnel in Jerusalem
Posted in Biblical Archaeology, Culture & Cuisine, Interesting places to visit, Israel, Overseas trips, Short videos, travel, tagged Archaeology, Bible, Biblical Archaeology, Hezekiah Tunnel, Israel, Jerusalem on July 25, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Ancient Jerusalem was a strong defensive position with a glaring weakness. The city was on a hill surrounded on three sides by steep valleys, but the water supply was a spring down at the bottom of the hill. During a siege, the residents needed safe, consistent access to the water in order to survive.
The most [...]
Very Old Stones in Jerusalem’s Eastern Wall
Posted in Biblical Archaeology, Israel, Links to interesting stuff, Overseas trips, Short videos, travel, tagged Archaeologists, Biblical Archaeology, Israel, Jerusalem, travel on July 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Dr. Leen Ritmeyer is an archaeological architect who specializes in Jerusalem and its Temple Mount. He has been involved in numerous excavations and maintains a Blog. He lectures around the world and has been published extensively.
In 2008, Dr. Ritmeyer posted new dating information on some of the stone blocks in the Temple Mount’s eastern wall. [...]
An Urban Legend in Archaeology – Updated
Posted in General Archaeology, Israel, Overseas trips, travel, tagged Archaeologists, Archaeology, Elah Fortress, Israel, Khirbet Qeiyafa on July 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There is an urban legend in archaeology that the most important finds will be discovered 1) at the end of the excavation, or 2) by sheer accident. My father had a discovery on Wednesday morning that qualified both ways.
My father (Royce Chandler) and I were excavating in a room that was scheduled to finish up [...]
On the Job at the Khirbet Qeiyafa Excavation
Posted in Biblical Archaeology, Culture & Cuisine, General Archaeology, Israel, Overseas trips, tagged Archaeology, Biblical Archaeology, Elah Fortress, Israel, Khirbet Qeiyafa, travel on July 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I just finished Day 3 on site at the Elah Fortress (aka Khirbet Qeiyafa) excavation. Today was not as tough as the previous days due to a combination of 1) a steady breeze that mitigated some of the summer temperature, 2) being able to work mostly in the shade, and 3) simply getting accustomed to [...]
We made it to the excavation
Posted in Biblical Archaeology, Israel, Overseas trips, travel, tagged Archaeology, Biblical Archaeology, Elah Fortress, Israel, Khirbet Qeiyafa, travel on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We finished our second workday at the Elah Fortress site a little while ago. There is more to do before bedtime, such as wash the pottery we found, sit in a lecture covering some aspect of biblical archaeology, and dinner to finish off the evening. Wakeup time is a few minutes after 4:00 a.m., so [...]
The Jordan River
Posted in Israel, Overseas trips, Short videos, travel, tagged Israel, Jordan, travel on July 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I already posted some pictorial highlights from today, but here is a little something extra.
The water was much deeper than it looked. After shooting the video, I started to wade out some more and immediately went to above-the-knee level. It certainly felt nice on a very hot day.
Up to Jerusalem, via some other places
Posted in Biblical Archaeology, Culture & Cuisine, Israel, Overseas trips, travel, tagged Art & Architecture, Biblical Archaeology, Israel on July 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We slept in until 7:30 this morning before going to visit Capernaum, which the Bible describes as Jesus’ “own city” in Luke 9. He lived here for a while during his earlier ministry, possibly in Peter’s house if not His own. We had a brief stop at the Jordan River before proceeding south along the [...]
Day 2: Harod, Jezreel and Mount Carmel
Posted in Culture & Cuisine, Israel, Overseas trips, tagged Biblical Archaeology, carmel, harod, Israel, jezreel on July 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
We visited the Spring of Harod, Jezreel, Megiddo and Mt. Carmel today. I will save most of Jezreel and all of Megiddo for later posts, but here are some highlights from the other sites.
We left this morning to visit the Spring of Harod, where the Lord had Gideon whittle his army down from 10,000 to [...]
