Archaeology

PALMYRA of the Centuries: The History, the Fall & the Restoration…

“Every person has two homelands,” the French archaeologist Andre Parrot once commented ; “His own and Syria”. T.E Lawrence (of Arabia), who spent a great deal of time exploring Syria, wrote specifically of Palmyra; “Nothing in this scorching, desolate land could be so refreshing”. It might also have been Lawrence who labelled Palmyra (or the […]

The Myth of Abraham and America’s Allegiance to Israel

The Charm of Myth
Karl Marx once observed that ancient Greek art, rooted in Greek mythology, still constituted for modern people “a source of aesthetic enjoyment and in certain respects prevails as the standard and model beyond attainment.” He asked: “Why should the social childhood of mankind, where it has obtained its most beautiful development, not exert an eternal charm as an age that will never return?”

AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): Settlers attempt construction of new access path at Tel Rumeida

CPTnet | March 27, 2014

Attempt by settlers to begin construction of walking path on Tel Rumeida.  The blue fence is on the
settlement, and the new stake on right is in a washed out area that would link the settler path to
an existing path along the outside of the fence surrounding the settler archaeological dig.