Last Day in Jerusalem

           A rare privilege of participating in an archeological project. We were taken across the Kidron Valley to a site where tons of excavated material was dumped previously. Now the goal is to find as many artifacts as possible in all this dirt and debris.
         First we were presented a crash course to identify bone, glass, pottery, coins, iron, and ceramics.  The Archeologist explained the intricacies of any and each.  Then a crash course on finding these in the mud and stones.

66 AD -68 AD Jewish coins from the Second Temple Era found earlier

The area where our dirt was excavated earlier and dumped from construction on the right.

Trained archeologist teaching us

Some pottery and bones found in the first screen

Lana Hunter shows a modern coin found in her screen

Dumping rocks in the discard wheelbarrow

Laurie Bunting at the screen with a resident archeologist checking if we missed something

The "Teacher" showing what we found and some earlier finds

Our group of archeology wanna-bees

A small pendant found today by Lana- might be of bone

This is a long hard work often in temperatures over 100 degrees -yet it leads to stunning discoveries

Broken pottery from 66-68 AD

Bustling Old City on a Friday -looking for some dried fruits

One can find almost anything from food to household supplies and clothing