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El Araj Excavations Day 19 (Week 4/Day 5). Today was the final day on the excavation site. It was a day of summations, clean up, picture taking and departure...

El Araj Excavations Day 18 (Week 4/Day 4). Today was the last full day of the excavations this season. Once again there were many finds including coins and p...

El Araj Excavations Day 17 (Week 4/Day 3). Today was a day of many rich finds. Especially in Area B where the team from Hong Kong has taken the lead, they co...

El Araj Excavations Day 16 (Week 4/Day 2). Today was one of the hottest days of the 2018 season. The heat and the fatigue of excavating 6 hours a day, 5 days...

El Araj Excavations Day 15 (Week 4/Day 1). We began our fourth and final week of the 2018 excavation season before sunrise. The pace of our work is picking u...

El Araj Excavations Day 13 (Week 3/Day 4). The pictures are from our work on Wednesday, July 4. Our days are full and in the evenings fatigue sets in - thus ...

El Araj Excavations Day 12 (Week 3/Day 3). The weather is heating up and so is our excavation. We continue to excavate the squares and bring them down to ear...

El Araj Excavations Day 11 (Week 3/Day 2). We continue to make good headway expanding our dig and deepening the probes. More squares are moving down towards ...

El Araj Excavations Day 10 (Week 3/Day 1). Our new team of 40 student volunteers arrived on Friday (6/29). Saturday they were introduced to the region around...

Today, on the Sabbath, we welcome new volunteers for the beginning of session 2 of the El Araj Excavation Project. The final two weeks of the dig will be met...

Today, on the Sabbath, we welcome new volunteers for the beginning of session 2 of the El Araj Excavation Project. The final two weeks of the dig will be met...

El Araj Excavations Day 8 (Week 2/Day 4). Today included some of the most significant finds this season which are bringing the history of el Araj into cleare...

El Araj Excavations Day 7 (Week 2/Day 3). Good progress today. The new squares are really coming along. Lots of coins and tesserae, the unfinished Corinthian...

El Araj Excavations Day 6 (Week 2/Day 2). Another good day. Among the pictures posted here you will find a panoramic picture of our site with two others that...

El Araj Excavations Day 5 (Week 2/Day 1). We wake at 4:15AM, eat a light breakfast, and make our way to the dig by 6:00 always with view of the beautiful sun...

Today we concluded our first week of excavations. We continue to work down through Crusader and Byzantine remains. Vestiges of the past are unearthed frequen...

Today we had some fascinating finds as we continue to dig down through Crusader and Byzantine remains and expose more Roman period settlement. In the afterno...

We are in full excavation mode at el Araj. Lots of changes. We have expanded three more squares to the north with more on the way. We continue to dig down in...

Follow us here for dig updates and see our Instagram feed! On June 15th, an archaeological team and volunteers return to the site of El Araj to begin Season ...