Digging up the Bible ? The excavations at Tell deir Alla (1960-1967). Histoire de l’art A disciple of Louis Robert

A disciple of Louis Robert

Women of faith but also historical figures

"The poems presented in this Calligrapher's Notebook illustrate a tradition that corresponds to the golden age of classical Chinese poetry

les ethnographes dépeignent des femmes ignorantes

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Digging up the Bible ? The excavations at Tell deir Alla (1960-1967). Histoire de l’art A disciple of Louis RobertThis is the account of a remarkable excavation. It started with a modest dig on an unremarkable tell in Jordan. The name of the tell does not occur in the Bible, and no ancient town of any importance was to be expected under the rubble. The excavator Henk Franken had not yet made a name for himself within the archaeological community. And yet, from 1960 onwards history was being (re)written at Tell Deir Alla. To discover the secrets of the tell, the