So It Begins Again

As a Peer Educator, this week marks the beginning of my second “tour” at Antioch, and I was thrilled to find that is everything exactly as I remember it, and yet I have the chance to look at it with a new set of eyes. The first week of excavation on any...

Week 1

We started our Turkey adventure this week exhausted from our travels, but very excited to get to work. After a little a bit of sleep we headed out to the dig site. We started the work day with a tour of the site where we learned the various areas where we would be...

Week 1 of Excavation

The first week of excavation has ended. I have been working on the upper acropolis to clear the debris of rocks and roots away from the surface of the soil. Where all we could see three days ago was a lumpy hill covered in brush and large rocks, we can now see the...

Welcome to the blog

This page is where posts to the research blog will go starting the week of 14 July 2014.  Please check this space after that time!