THE TEL DAN EXCAVATION has been ended early this season:

Rhodes archaeologist returns after working near war zone

By Zack McMillin
Contact
July 26, 2006
It was when the Israeli army patrols began asking them to leave that Rhodes College archaeology professor Ryan Byrne and his colleagues finally decided they should abandon their excavation site in Golan, near the border between Israel and Lebanon.

The previous two days, Hezbollah rockets and Israeli artillery had provided the soundtrack accompanying their work at Tel Dan, where excavations provide a constant reminder of the violence and cultural and religious conflicts that have defined the area for millenia [sic].

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