Salvage archaeology in Israel

BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Salvage Excavation in Israel. BAR Interviews IAA’s Head Archaeologist, Gideon Avni (Nathan Steinmeyer). Unusually for BHD, this essay contains the full text of the interview.

For more on the recent excavations at Yavneh Yam, mentioned in the essay, see here and links.

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