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I Volunteered for This?! Life on an Archaeological Dig

1993 Excavation Opportunities Telling It Like It Is
a. See Shelley Wachsmann, “The Galilee Boat—2,000-Year-Old Hull Recovered Intact,” BAR 14:05).

Hands On: No Grid Lock at Ashkelon—The View from the Square
a. “Tophet” is the Biblical word for the place in Jerusalem’s Valley of Ben Hinnom where ancient Israelites transgressed the rigid monotheism
of their faith by sacrificing their children to pagan gods. Modern scholars use the word to name Phoenician cemeteries of sacrificed children that have
been discovered in Sicily, Sardinia and Tunisia.

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