For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Romans 15:4
One of our stops today was Tel Mareshah, a site I’ve been to a few times before. We signed up for something different for the visit: a program called Dig for a Day. For a chunk of the afternoon, a group does a little archaeological digging in one of the 5000 caves around the site, which is closed to the public. Then we gathered our buckets of dirt and rocks and sifted them. It’s a fun way to have a hands on experience of archaeology. Then we did some caving at another, unexcavated cave (also not open to the public), forcing us to crawl at times. That is getting a lay of the land!
