Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific at Berkeley, California, will leave Friday on an expedition aimed at unearthing the ruins of Gibeon, an ancient city mentioned 43 times in the Bible. They hope to throw new light on Joshua’s conquest of ancient Palestine.
The digging will be carried out on a site inside Jordan at the Arab village of E1-Jib, located eight miles north of Jerusalem and three miles east of the Israel-Jordan border.
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