The thrill of discovery!What will the mystery object turn out to be?
My colleagues here are freeing it from earth that covered it for some 4,000 years.
We excavated many such Canaanite shaft tombs at the Holyland site in Jerusalem.
See other posts about the site, just click on my label below, "archaeology-Holyland."
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City Daily Photo bloggers have our monthly Theme Day today on the subject Mystery Object.
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I love watching shows on tv where they excavate old sites and discover the layers of civilisation that are beneath.
ReplyDeleteYou touched time. How very impressive indeed !
ReplyDeletePlease have a good new month and a nice weekend as well.
Rosh Hashanah Dina. What an exciting thing to uncover.
ReplyDeleteI would love to experience the thrill of uncovering an object so old and so long covered up! You are a very lucky lady Dina.
ReplyDeleteI hope you will tell us what it was. This is the photo I was expecting from you Dina :-)
ReplyDeleteNow that really is a mystery object.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, the real thing. Brilliant Dina. Like Julie, I adore watching excavations - always so exciting.
ReplyDeleteEverything you dig out is mystery object, so exciting. You never know what it will be. Ever found a paleolithic toilet brush??? Lol
ReplyDeleteMy love of the old doesn't go back more than a couple of centuries, but every new discovery is interesting...
ReplyDeletea dig. the anticipation of what one might find on a trued dig of the past
ReplyDeleteHow exciting! Clever entry on the theme, Dina.
ReplyDeleteWhat an exciting discovery indeed! Some mysterious, ancient object d'art?
ReplyDeleteWow! This looks so exciting and fun. I can see why you enjoy it so much, Dina.
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