Buried Treasure That's Kept In The Dark

Haaretz ^ | 12-23-2006 | MeronRapoport

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Buried treasure that's kept in the dark

By Meron Rapoport

The first 10 minutes at the excavation site passed in silence. The moment we saw the high walls and the large, well-preserved rooms dug into the ground between the olive trees, the archaeologists in the group started to bound from wall to wall, to delve into the rooms. "This is one of the biggest MBs I've seen," Dr. Rafi Greenberg, an archaeologist from Tel Aviv University, mumbled. "It really is a very impressive MB," another of the archaeologists in the group agreed. Because of their excitement, it took a bit of time to get them to explain. "What's MB?" I asked. "Middle Bronze," they replied, as experts reply to lay people. "Middle Bronze. The Canaanites."

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[nevergore]

Very exciting! BTW, I've enjoyed reading your posts over the years....

Merry Christmas Blam!

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[ThreePuttinDude]

I too would like to compliment you on your interesting articles.
I've found a new and interesting form of study thanks to you.

Merry Christmas,

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[reformed_democrat]

Just wanted to thank you both and wish you a Merry Christmas. Your posts and PING lists are the best.

And have a Happy New Year (or "Live Long and Prosper," as my son says -- he got he geek genes from me).

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Cool.

[Smokin' Joe]

The upshot is that the staff officer for archaeology holds sole responsibility for all archaeological matters beyond the Green Line. (The SOA, like Education Minister Yuli Tamir, knows exactly where the Green Line runs). Nor is he subject to the authority of the Antiquities Authority, which approves and supervises all digs within Israel proper.

If the excavations are not being documented, this is just so much official 'pothunting', imo.

Better to put them on a map and hide the map, at least that way some of the data would be preserved.

[blam]

"Just wanted to thank you both and wish you a Merry Christmas. Your posts and PING lists are the best."

Thanks. Merry Christmas to you and yours.

[gogogodzilla]

MB is not 'Middle Bronze', you stupid archeologist!

MB means 'Mercedes-Benz'!

:-P

[SunkenCiv]

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[investigateworld]

As we approach the New Year and want to thank you both for your efforts.
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[SunkenCiv]

Since 1967, some 5,000 archaeological sites in the West Bank have been surveyed, and most of the surveys have been published. True, Greenberg says, the surveys were done by Israeli archaeologists and they naturally preferred sites that are important to Jewish rather than Palestinian history, but the work was professional. And even though the finds were removed from the sites, Greenberg explains, they are preserved in satisfactory manner in SOA storerooms in Jerusalem. The finds are not open to the general public, still less the Palestinian public from the soil of whose villages they were extracted. But Greenberg hopes that if, one day, Israeli rule in the West Bank ends it will be possible to transfer to the Palestinians in an orderly manner the antiquities removed from the territories. Greenberg admits that Israeli archaeologists have excavated mainly the First Temple and Second Temple periods, while sometimes "peeling" layers from Muslim periods, but he does not think they can be seriously faulted on this score.

From this article, I'd have to conclude that Greenberg is an imbecile.

[Angelas]

Thank you for the interesting posts. Have a great New Year!

[SunkenCiv]

A hearty "you're welcome" and thanks to both of you!

[blam]

"I enjoy sharing them with the grandkids, usually just before we watch an "Indiana Jones" episode. :^)"

Good and thanks. We enjoy it too.

[Fred Nerks]

"Greenberg admits that Israeli archaeologists have excavated mainly the First Temple and Second Temple periods, while sometimes "peeling" layers from Muslim periods, but he does not think they can be seriously faulted on this score."

I would like to write and tell him that when he finds the site where mohammad's magic horse (the one with the breasts and face of a woman and the peacock-feather tail) took a dump, he's welcome to return it to the muslim arab scum.