Thursday, January 11, 2018

Jerusalem's ancient garbage

BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Taking Out the Trash in Ancient Jerusalem. Using the archaeology of garbage to reconstruct ancient life (Megan Sauter). As usual, this is about a BAR article that is behind the subscription wall: Yuval Gadot, “Jerusalem and the Holy Land(fill).” But this essay is an informative summary of it.

Past PaleoJudaica posts on this excavation are here and here.

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