ERIC AND CAROL MEYERS, along with the Sepphoris excavation, are profiled in a Durham Herald-Sun article:

Duke husband-and-wife archaeologists renowned for decades of field studies


By PAUL BONNER : The Herald-Sun
pbonner@heraldsun.com
Jul 23, 2005 : 11:40 pm ET

DURHAM -- The excavators were turning up tesserae, small bits of colored tile, that told Eric and Carol Meyers a mosaic probably lay beneath.

The Duke archaeologists and a team were digging in a banquet hall of a Roman-style villa at Sepphoris, four miles from Nazareth and not far from the Sea of Galilee in Israel. It was July 2, 1987, a Friday afternoon.

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And from the same source, an article on the disagreement between Eric Meyers and Hershel Shanks over the James Ossuary.

one box bedevils friendship


By PAUL BONNER : The Herald-Sun
pbonner@heraldsun.com
Jul 23, 2005 : 11:41 pm ET

DURHAM -- Few single archaeological artifacts have stirred as much controversy as the so-called James ossuary.

It has placed Duke archaeologist Eric Meyers and an erstwhile friend, Hershel Shanks, editor of Biblical Archeology Review, at odds -- with Meyers among those doubting the authenticity of a key phrase of its inscription.

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