By Megan Anderson
Our spirits were high as we set out in the dark morning
hours. We all piled into the cars and headed out to the site. We spent a very
interesting day recording the old village walls which dotted the landscape, but
what made today especially exciting was that Emma was the first to finally see
one of the snakes that live in the undergrowth. Apparently more afraid of her
than she was of it, the snake slithered away…hopefully never to be seen again.
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| Recording walls from the village. |
That afternoon, instead of returning to the field, we had
the opportunity to visit Tel Megiddo, or biblical Armageddon, where we joined
members of the Tel Aviv University’s Board of Governors from Canada for a tour.
Dr. Norma Franklin, who was a member of the Megiddo team for 19 years, explained the site and its
significance. It was very interesting to hear how interpretations of the site
have changed over the years as new evidence is uncovered. To end our tour we
took 180 steps down into the water system, which was not only impressive, but
more importantly on a hot day—cool.
The
spring there is still active and we stood over a small pool of water deep
inside the bedrock, where a tiny frog was entertaining himself by watching
tourists.
Ending our day we came back to the kibbutz for dinner, and like
the old ladies we are fast becoming, we were all sound asleep by 9:30pm.
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| Megan found this pot on the surface during survey. |
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