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Dig Kabri 2017

Help us dig at Tel Kabri this coming summer! When else will you have the opportunity to help support the excavation of a Canaanite palace more than 3,500 years old, decorated with Minoan-style floor and wall paintings, and with the oldest and largest wine cellar yet found from the ancient Near East?


If you cannot actually come and dig with us, please contribute what you can to help us make the 2017 dig season a success! Our season will be from 18 June - 27 July 2017. We will be concentrating on the storage rooms of the palace, continuing the excavation of the wine cellar that we began excavating during the 2013 and 2015 seasons, which was written up in the New York Times and Time Magazine:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/science/in-ruins-of-palace-a-wine-with-hints-of-cinnamon-and-top-notes-of-antiquity.html?_r=0 

http://time.com/3178786/wine-bronze-age-archaeology/


It's expensive to run a modern excavation these days -- much more expensive than you might imagine! We have to house and feed a team of 60 (ten staff and 50 team members) during our six-week dig season; hire a bus to take us to and from the site each day; pay for tools and their storage; hire a night guard (so nobody loots the site while we're away sleeping!); purchase boxes, bags, tags, string, paper clips, paper; cover the airfare of essential staff members; rent cars; and so on.

And then there are the expenses connected with actually finding things, like the 110 large jars in the storage room that we uncovered during the 2013 and 2015 seasons, which our scientific analyses showed once held wine for the king and his entourage. These "after-dig" expenses, which are actually an integral part of the excavation, are for essential scientific activities, including funding for radio-carbon dating; organic residue analysis (which is how we know that there was wine in the jars!); and conservation -- including putting all of the important pottery vessels back together! 


We need your help to make the 2017 dig season at Kabri a success! Please give generously today and help contribute to expanding our knowledge of the ancient world!

(For more information on our dig, including details about the upcoming season and reports on our findings from past seasons, go to http://digkabri2015.wordpress.com)

Organizer

Eric Cline
Organizer
Rockville, MD

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