Archaeological Dig for a day Israel
Tour guide Elad Tzur zurelad@gmail.com
A review of the Archaeological seminars Dig for a day is Israel.
about 50 minuets from Jerusalem or Tel Aviv, not fat from Beth shemesh.
3 hours long. Great for kids, education, and lovers of history and Jewish history.
Other activities nearby:
The Beit Guvrin national park, stalagmite cave, great hiking.
Dig for a Day in Maresha National Park, Israel with the Archaeological Seminars.
Zahi Shaked A tour guide in Israel and his camera
+972 54 6905522 zahigo25@walla.com
צחי שקד, מורה דרך ומדריך תיירים. מצלם אותם בכל הזדמנות 054690552
A rare opportunity which allows you to touch your roots
Dig for a Day is a unique program designed for visitors of all ages
The Dig for a Day program runs three hours. The activity includes: digging, sifting, pottery examination and touring the National Park of Beit Guvrin with an exciting crawl through unexcavated cave systems.
Currently, Archaeological Seminars is digging at Tel Maresha, in the area of
Beit Guvrin, ancestral home of King Herod. Vast underground labyrinths
of man-made rooms are being systematically cleaned and give evidence of
underground industrial complexes dating from the Hellenistic period.
Remains of olive oil production, weaving installations, water cisterns and
baths confirm a high level of material culture. This site offers a wealth of
discoveries and practical experience for those who want to dig but have
limited time.
Over the last decade, thousands of people have participated in the Dig for a Day program and found it to be a rewarding and fun experience!
Dig for a Day
Amateur archeology experience in Israel lets you connect with the past and search for treasure, one careful shovelful at a time. The two- to three-hour experience is led by the Archeological Seminars Institute and attracts people from all over the world.
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Samford Archaeological Dig In Israel
An archaeological expedition directed by Samford University religion professor James Riley Strange has uncovered the remains of an unfamiliar Jewish village in the Galilee sector of Israel. Dr. Strange and fellow directors Mordechai Aviam of the Institute for Galilean Archaeology at the Kinneret Academic College in Israel and David Fiensy of Kentucky Christian University announced the discovery this week.
The remains include an ancient synagogue, houses and massive evidence of pottery production in the ancient Jewish village of Shikhin, near the ancient Jewish city of Sepphoris (Zippori). The site is important because it teaches about Galilean Jewish village life and its economy at the birth of both Christianity and the Judaism of the Talmud, according to Dr. Strange. The sites are about five miles northwest of Nazareth.
Dig for a Day -The National Park of Beit Guvrin, Tel Maresha - Israel
Zahi Shaked A tour guide in Israel and his camera
+972 54 6905522 zahigo25@walla.com
צחי שקד, מורה דרך ומדריך תיירים. מצלם אותם בכל הזדמנות 0546905522
A rare opportunity which allows you to touch your roots
Dig for a Day is a unique program designed for visitors of all ages
The Dig for a Day program runs three hours. The activity includes: digging, sifting, pottery examination and touring the National Park of Beit Guvrin with an exciting crawl through unexcavated cave systems.
Currently, Archaeological Seminars is digging at Tel Maresha, in the area of
Beit Guvrin, ancestral home of King Herod. Vast underground labyrinths
of man-made rooms are being systematically cleaned and give evidence of
underground industrial complexes dating from the Hellenistic period.
Remains of olive oil production, weaving installations, water cisterns and
baths confirm a high level of material culture. This site offers a wealth of
discoveries and practical experience for those who want to dig but have
limited time.
Over the last decade, thousands of people have participated in the Dig for a Day program and found it to be a rewarding and fun experience
The Dig for a Day, Israel - The most amazing family activity of the century. Tour guide: Zahi Shaked
Zahi Shaked A tour guide in Israel and his camera
+972 54 6905522 zahigo25@walla.com
צחי שקד, מורה דרך ומדריך תיירים. מצלם אותם בכל הזדמנות 054690552
A rare opportunity which allows you to touch your roots
Dig for a Day is a unique program designed for visitors of all ages
The Dig for a Day program runs three hours. The activity includes: digging, sifting, pottery examination and touring the National Park of Beit Guvrin with an exciting crawl through unexcavated cave systems.
Currently, Archaeological Seminars is digging at Tel Maresha, in the area of
Beit Guvrin, ancestral home of King Herod. Vast underground labyrinths
of man-made rooms are being systematically cleaned and give evidence of
underground industrial complexes dating from the Hellenistic period.
Remains of olive oil production, weaving installations, water cisterns and
baths confirm a high level of material culture. This site offers a wealth of
discoveries and practical experience for those who want to dig but have
limited time.
Over the last decade, thousands of people have participated in the Dig for a Day program and found it to be a rewarding and fun experience!
Lyminge Excavation 2012 University of Reading
A summary of the findings from the 2012 Archaeological Excavations at Lyminge in Kent, with Dr Gabor Thomas, Dr Alexandra Knox and some local volunteers.
ACBC Archaeology Dig
As part of their ancient history course Austin Cove Baptist Students perform an archaeological dig at the college.
Lecture - Yosef Garfinkel “Searching for the Historical King David”
Lecture by Yosef Garfinkel “Searching for the Historical King David: Khirbet Qeiyafa and Khirbet al-Ra’i”
The figure of King David, who is so well known from the biblical tradition, is a very elusive figure from the archaeological or historical point of view. Even in Jerusalem, David’s capital city, there is no clear archaeological layer that can be related to him. For this reason, various minimalist approaches have been raised, suggesting that the biblical tradition is nothing but myth. Dr. Garfinkel’s excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa (2007-2013) uncovered for the first time in the archaeology of Israel, a fortified city from the time of King David. His excavations at Khirbet al Ra’i (since 2015) uncovered another site in Judah from the time of King David. In this lecture, Dr. Garfinkel will discuss the importance of the discovery of these two sites.
Yosef Garfinkel is Professor of Archaeology (Prehistoric & Biblical Period) at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Lecture by Yosef Garfinkel Professor of Archaeology (Prehistoric & Biblical Period) Hebrew University of Jerusalem Saturday, September 15, 2018, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m..
Yosef Garfinkel was born in Israel and studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned his BA degree in Archaeology and Geography, his MA degree in Prehistory and Biblical Archaeology and his PhD degree in the Pottery of Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic Periods. Since 1993 he has taught Archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Periods at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he holds the Yigael Yadin Chair in Archaeology of Israel and is Head of the Institute of Archaeology. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Yale University, Oxford University, Cambridge University and King's College in London. Over the years he has conducted excavations at various Proto-historic sites in Israel Yiftahel, Gesher, Tel Ali, Sha'ar Hagolan, Neolithic Ashkelon and Tel Tsaf.
In 2007 he started the excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa, where a fortified city from the time of King David has been uncovered for the first time in the archaeology of Israel. In the years 2013 to 2017 he excavated at the biblical city of Lachish, the second most important city in Judah, after Jerusalem. Since 2015 he has also excavated at Khirbet al-Ra'i, another site in Judah from the time of King David. His archaeological work has challenged the conclusions of Israel Finkelstein and other proponents of “low chronology” who deny the biblical account of a well developed monarchy with David and Solomon as kings of Israel.
To be published this summer is Garfinkel's latest book, In the Footsteps of King David: Revelations from an Ancient Biblical City, which he co-authored with Saar Ganor and Michael G. Hasel. Other books he authored or co-authored include Solomon's Temple and Palace: New Archaeological Discoveries, Human and Animal Figurines of Munhata, The Goddess of Sha'ar Hagolan: Excavations at a Neolithic Site in Israel, Debating Khirbet Qeiyafa: A Fortified City in Judah from the Time of King David and Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture. The last of these books won Garfinkel the Polonsky Book Prize for creativity and originality in the Humanities. He has also been awarded grants by the National Geographic Society.
Journey to the Copper Age
In this May 12, 2013 Sunday at the Met program, discover how the introduction of metal production over 6,000 years ago created a metallurgy revolution that sparked social change in the southern Levant. Examine elaborate and prestigious metal objects created in this region, including crowns, scepters, and mace heads. Learn more about the first Israeli-Jordanian-American-German international experimental archaeology expedition, led by the speaker, to locate the Copper Age trade route used by the earliest metalworkers in the Holy Land.
Thomas Evan Levy is the Distinguished Professor and Norma Kershaw Chair in the Archaeolgy of Ancient Israel and Neighboring Lands at the University of California, San Diego.
This Sunday at the Met is made possible by the Helen Diller Family.
Archaeology and Futurity Conference Keynote
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
In a particularly troubling academic climate that is witnessing departmental amalgamation and a relative dearth in full-time faculty hires, how does the discipline of archaeology envision its future? What is its role beyond the walls of the academy? Should archaeology be useful and, if so, for what purposes? This conference addresses archaeology’s potential role in contributing to pressing world problems including climate change, economic inequality, human rights, neocolonialism, and militarism.
This conference also seeks to address how futurity plays a role in how archaeologists confront the past in the present. Through a departure from linear time, this conference will explore alternative notions of time, material vestiges of the past in the present, and embodied experiences that transcend temporalities. If we accept that archaeology is a discipline about the present, how are we to think about time and futurity?
Keynote: Laurent Olivier (National Museum of Archaeology at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France)
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Galilee, Jesus, and Christology, Third Shaffer Lecture
Convocation 2010
In light of the special significance of the relationship of Jesus to Galilee prompted by intense archeological investigation and renewed debate about the Historical Jesus, Freyne presented a summary of the relevant new archaeological data from Galilee.
Event Speaker(s):
Sean Freyne, professor emeritus at Trinity College, Dublin
Recorded: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 4:00pm
Magdala: Head Archaeologist and Synagogue Expert (FCF S8E12)
Season 8 Episode 12. Host Jeff Futers goes back to Magdala on the shores of Sea of Galilee, and speaks to the head archaeologist Dr. Marcela Zapata-Meza. Also, Jeff speaks with synagogue expert Professor Anders Runesson from the University of Oslo.
Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin (2016/2017) - Seminar 2 Discussion
Undine Lieberwirth and Axel Gering (Topoi)
3D GIS in archaeology – a micro-scale analysis
Abstract
The new method of solid 3d modelling presented in this study allows new statistical perspectives for archaeological, geophysical and geochemical records in a 3D GIS environment. The micro-scale analysis investigates archaeological excavation trenches of the West Porticus in Ostia.
The study shows the range of possibilities available for using standardised vector, raster and voxel data formats (OGC) in the open source environments GRASS GIS and ParaView. It allows the creation of a digital model of all documented archaeological information – including legacy data come from laser scan, SfM, AutoCAD drawings and photographs – in a real 3D coordinate system.
The addition of 3D geochemical and geophysical research data to the archaeological record allows a comparison of all gathered information, leading to a better understanding of archaeological remains. The course of stratigraphy can be detected throughout 3D space and common tools like filtering and querying can create new thematic 3D models, thereby allowing insight into entire structure and detecting 3D patterns.
The newly created 3D maps not only offer new possibilities for looking at archaeological facts from any perspective, but also allow the re-excavation in a spatio-temporal environment by adding the fourth dimension.
Furthermore, the reconstruction and analysis process has a retroactive effect on documentation. The model holds information everywhere within the 3D scape, and can therefore produce profiles and sections anywhere. Is there a need to document these any more?
The spatio-temporal cultural-scapes model not only gives new perspectives in documentation and analysis of archaeological data at the micro-scale; our example shows how it also provides insights into the most interesting parts of the area underneath the antique marble stone pavement of the West Porticus at the Ostia forum (a pavement which had never before been lifted), dating from the 2nd to the 6th century BC.
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Mysteries of the Bible: Biblical Archaeology
Like the swashbuckling hero in Raiders of the Lost Ark, George Washington University Professor Eric H. Cline has a taste for adventure. On campus, he's a sought-after professor of classics and anthropology. But off campus, he travels the world unearthing clues to ancient times. An acclaimed archaeologist, Dr. Cline has led excavations across the Middle East for more than thirty years. He's dug up daggers and bowls, discovered fragments of frescoes, and searched for evidence of biblical heroes and events. Was Abraham a real person? Did the Exodus actually happen? Dr. Cline, author of Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction, will explore these mysteries and more with National Geographic Magazine's archaeology editor, Kristin Romey, at the Center for Jewish History. From 19th-century theologians who first headed to the Holy Land with a bible in one hand and a trowel in another, to the secrets 21st-century technology reveals, they'll dig into this fascinating field and investigate the biblical mysteries archaeologists can and can't solve.
Mysteries of the Bible: Biblical Archaeology is part of Very Short Introductions: Short Talks on Big Subjects, a series produced in partnership with Oxford University Press and featuring authors of Oxford’s Very Short Introduction books.
Dr Bill Domeris - Part 4: Jesus Through Archaeological Eyes (1 of 2)
Part 4 of 5. Dr Bill Domeris, a senior academic at the South African Theological Seminary, presented this 5-part series on Biblical Archaeology at the 2015 academic retreat of the undergraduate school. The series focuses primarily on discoveries made in and around the city of Jerusalem.
For more information about SATS, visit sats.edu.za
Israel Finkelstein on Archaeology and Bible (August 2018/2)
Prof. Israel Finkelstein from Tel Aviv University (Israel), one of the leading scholars in the archaeology of the Levant and a foremost figure in the application of archaeological data in reconstructing biblical history, reflects on the relation between Archaeology and Bible. He looks back on how the relation between archaeological and biblical studies changed during his academic career, discusses his methodology in combining archaeological and biblical data and elaborates on how the so-called science revolution within archaeology effected or effects the discipline and his research in particular. Furthermore, he shares many interesting insights about a recent hot spot of his research, the question of Northern traditions and even a possible “Northern Corpus” within the texts of the Hebrew Bible. Check out the presentation and feel free to engage in a scholarly discussion via the comment section.
The EABS would like to express its deepest gratitude to Prof. Finkelstein for this interview and for sharing his most recent research ideas. For more information on his research, please visit his personal website:
The Live Wire - Special Edition from Jerusalem
This week's Live Wire takes us to Jerusalem, to the site of UNC Charlotte's archaeological dig. See Professor James Tabor and the exciting work his team has been doing to uncover history in the Holy City.
Dr. James Tabor, Professor of Christian Origins and Ancient Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies, will be the guest on the special July 16 edition of “The Live Wire,” Inside UNC Charlotte’s streaming webcast, from Jerusalem.
For more information, go to digmountzion.uncc.edu
Randall Manor Community Dig 2010 (KTVarchive)
All the processes and excitements of excavating a fascinating medieval archaeological site are open and available for the public to get their hands on at this Community Open Day.
Archaeological Evidence that Proves the Bible is True
Archaeological Evidence that Proves the Bible is True
(You can translate the captions into your own language)
This video is a recording of a presentation given by Dr. Don Patton, originally entitled Stones of Israel. In this presentation Dr. Patton provides historical and archaeological evidence that proves the passages of the Bible. This video erodes any ideas that the Bible is a book of fairy-tales.
Introduction: 0:44
Altar of Joshua (Deuteronomy 27:4): 4:25
Gilgal Campsite of the Israelites (Joshua 4;19): 13:20
City of Jericho (Joshua 6:4, 5; Joshua 2;15): 16:18
Story Prophet Balaam at Tel Deir'Alla, Jordan (Numbers 22:2, 5): 22:00
Ark of the Covenant and Tabernacle site at Shiloh (Joshua 18:1): 25:22
Fortified Gates of Solomon (1 Kings 9;15): 29:20
Oldest Hebrew Texts going back 400 years older than the dead sea scrolls (Jeremiah 17:1): 30:27
Jeroboam's Altar at Tel Dan and An Inscription proving the House of David existed (1 Kings 12;25-33): 34:42
The City of David (2 Samuel 5:6-11): 38:53
Seal verifying existence of Azariah (1 Chronicles 9;11) Seals verifying existence of Gemariah and Baruch (Jeremiah 36;10). Seal of Jerahmeel (Jeremiah 36;26). Fifty-one of these seals were found and verifies the existence of 26 people mentioned in the Bible!: 49:00
Water Shaft of the City of Zion (2 Samuel 5:8), Solomon's Coronation at Gihon (1 Kings 1;33): 52:07
Tower of Siloam (Luke 13:4): 59:28
Wall of Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 32:2, 5; Nehemiah 2;17): 1:00:34
Tombs of the House of David (1 Kings 2;10): 1:02:11
Walls Surrounding Herod's Temple and Robinson's Arch: 1:03:04
Stairs Down to the Pool (Nehemiah 3;15) and the Gate Beautiful (Acts 3:2): 1:05:20
Pool of Siloam (John 9:7; Isaiah 22:9; Nehemiah 3;15): 1:07:00
King David's Palace (2 Samuel 5;11): 1:12:43
Summary of all the Archaeological discoveries discussed here: 1:16:49
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