Find a Dig
Friday, December 29, 2006
Herschel Shanks, the braintrust and editor behind Biblical Archaeology Review, once told me that the most popular issue of the popular magazine is the one every winter where they run lists of digs that volunteers can join. I've always loved this tidbit. In the old days (think the 1920's), digs were grand affairs, with archaeologists like Carter in the Valley of the Kings or Woolsey in Mesopotamia setting up camp, dining out on fine silver every night in the deserts, and locals running around for pennies a day. All this is harder now, so digs run on volunteers, who come to experience the romance of the past and survive on dreams that they might stumble into some fragment of the Bible.
The list should be coming out in the next few weeks. Meanwhile, BAR has a new website, Find a Dig, where you stoke your dreams online.
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