By Rick Bonnie

During the 2010 season a lot of stories were exchanged between the volunteers and staff members about how they experienced the food, the rooms, the people, etc. One of the earliest and most interesting story was this experience by an anonymous person told and written down by Rick and Jesús. In a way, it shows the vibe, the enthusiasm and the dedication of this year’s staff members and volunteers to participate in the excavation of Horvat Kur...

Today, the 2010 season of the Kinneret Regional Project digging at Horvat Kur has come to an end. During the first part of the week, we removed the undigged space between the squares. Today, we cleaned both areas and broke up.

This week, we worked mainly on the courtyard in our square. In one half of our part of the courtyard, a nice floor of flat stones was revealed. In the other half, we only see some layers of soil with something like clay. Yesterday (Friday) we were removing the last of these layers.

In its weekly newspaper, Leiden University, one of the participating universities in this project, reported about the synagogue that was discovered in Horvat Kur. You can read it by following this link.

The news item was also written in Dutch: please follow this link.

Update: after a visit of the Finnish embassy, they published an article about the excavation (and especially about the synagogue...) on their website. Read it here in Finnish and here in English.

During the excavation in the field, lots of sherds of pottery are found between the soil and the stones. The amount of sherds is much greater than the amount of glass, bones, and coins. All this pottery has to be washed and analyzed, to be "read".