In my younger days (in the 50s) I read a story in Saturday Evening Post or similar in the dentist's waiting room. The archaeologists were headed into town late in the day after excavations somewhere around the Dead Sea. During their explorations that week they had found a beautiful life sized white statue of a woman and had loaded her into the back of their pickup truck. They found a place to eat & while they were occupied there, a heavy rainstorm came up. After it was over, they went back out & found that their statue was gone.
Cool story, I’m going to try to find that online.
See my post #30. It looks like I have the details wrong, but I, too, remember that story.
That would have been a once-in-two-years rainstorm.