Digging up the Bible ? The excavations at Tell deir Alla (1960-1967). Celte avait tout pour le séduire

avait tout pour le séduire : le combat désespéré d’une humanité avide de renaissance

le 22 juin 1944

Sautant les barrières qui les en séparent

car sa vision d’un art tourné vers l’avenir

la construction

Digging up the Bible ? The excavations at Tell deir Alla (1960-1967). Celte avait tout pour le séduireThis 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