The Big Dig at Bet Guvtin-Masesha

So, here is the day when we make History (yes, History with a capital H). We head to a archeological Dig at Bet Guvtin-Masesha where we get a bucket and a pick to dig up some dirt and see if we can find some remains or any artifacts. Well David, Patrick and Myself start digging on the side of the wall and we just started finding some ancient pottery from the Hellenistic time. There is this huge rock under me and I am trying to get it out of the way with David and it turns out to be some large old bricks. David says there is some space here without any dirt so he tries to take some rocks out of the space and while is is doing this I am removing the mountain of dirt that was accumulating. And all I hear is OMG!!!!!!!!! and what do you know - not in a million years would we have known that digging that that exact location we would find an intact, one entire piece of pottery. A Pot that was mostly used for water, intact, Had not been broken. Amazing an incredible find, we were just too excited, happy, nervous and completly blown out of our minds. Here is the cave we cralled into.....

This is David's and Patrick's unbelievable moment.
Here we are holding on to dear life that this pot does not fall and break. Showing everyone around us what we (the Catholic University School of Architecture Student) found.

And Again here we are admiring our find!

This is by far one of the best experiences being able to find some ancient pottery. Unfortunetly, we were not able to keep it, everything in the dig belonged to Israel but, if we wanted in about 3 months we can find out exactly in what time period the pot was from and if we wanted the school to have it, we can request it. (well, i am not sure if they would give it to the school or just let us borrow it for a couple of months and keep it on display). But, indeed an experience like no other.

As I mentioned before in a previous blog. We always seem to find ourselves getting into tiny holes.