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This post is a record of July 22, 2011, but was written later. This weekend (remember that weekend means Friday and Saturday for us) was unlike all of the previous weekends because we didn’t tour anywhere. During this “free weekend,” we could do whatever we wanted. Most of us took advantage of that right away [...]

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This post is a record of July 21, 2011, but was written later. The only thing left to do to finish square F10 was to remove the remaining balk, so that was our goal on day 21. I apologize for the dark spot in this before photo. I asked Darryl to take it for me, [...]

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This post is a record of July 20, 2011, but was written later. I think these before and after photos are misleading because I don’t think they do a good job of showing how much we got accomplished on day 20, but here they are. The photos make it look easy, but removing that much [...]

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This post is a record of July 19, 2011, but was written later. As far as I can remember, John’s team spent day 19 working on exposing as much of the floor as possible. As I wrote in the day 18 post, the floor isn’t the nicest. It’s made up of rocks that are not [...]

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This post is a record of July 18, 2011, but was written later. I forgot to take a before photo for day 18, but the after photo for day 17 is the same thing, so I’ll use that here. As the photos show, we had begun to hit floor in some areas. Unfortunately, the floor [...]

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This post is a record of July 17, 2011, but was written later. I continued work with John’s team on square F10. Unfortunately, since I’m writing this blog post a week after the fact, I don’t remember there being much that was noteworthy. Here are the usual before and after photos. You can tell that [...]

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This post is a record of July 16, 2011, but was written later. Shortly after waking up in the youth hostel, David, Dylan, and I were called to the window. (Although I technically roomed with Matt, I slept in Dylan and David’s room since each room had about 5 beds and there was plenty of [...]

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This post is a record of July 15, 2011, but was written later. As with the previous two weekends (Friday and Saturday), we spent this one touring. This time, rather than leaving on Thursday evening, we left early on Friday. The first place we visited was Qumran, an archaeological site near caves where the Dead [...]

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This post is a record of July 14, 2011, but was written later. On day 14, Glenn used brooms to truly finish F10 West. Here are the photos of the finished room. Having first helped start a new square, XX99, then help finish a square, F10 West, I was now moved to help work on [...]

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This post is a record of July 13, 2011, but was written later. As far as I can remember, day 13 was a fairly normal dig day, so I’m not sure I have too much to blog about. I did, however, get to have one of, if not the first nail find in F10 or [...]

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