Scenes from the new excavations at Tel Shiloh from my visit today:
a) a new group of volunteers from the Maaleh Efraim Mechina:
b) they have begun at the southern entrance to the Tel area are are working their way up:
c) the most interesting discovery this week is this room within the late Byzantine structure:
d) let me be more specific. the encircled-in-red room is a secret hiding place within the building which was sealed by a large circular stone which was rolled across the entrance to seal it off in case of attack:
e) archaeological work can be difficult; patience is needed to go through everything:
f) it seems that there is an earlier floor here that continues under the large Byzantine structure and it is from the late Roman period:
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
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