1119 - 1120 The Book & The Spade 25th Anniversary Holyland Study Tour review

Within a few years of the time we started doing this program we have been offering our listeners the opportunity to come with us and see what's happening at many of the archaeological sites that we discuss on the program. Our first tour was in 1985. This was our seventh or eighth tour, our first in seven years, and we had a great time. I've been calling it our Tells, Tombs, Tunnels and Treasures tour, because of all the things we were able to do and the places we were able to see (many of which we hadn't been able to include in earlier tours). We review the highlights of the tour on these two programs, and you can see some of my photos in the slide show.

1118 - Gibson and Tabor's Dig on Mt. Zion

This is the first of the programs that we recorded during our Book & the Spade 25th anniversary Holyland Tour. We were in Jerusalem on the first day of the UNC dig along the southern wall of the Old City, between Zion gate and the Dung gate and had a chance to talk with the head excavators about their plans for the site. More information can be found at their dig website.