Digging up the Bible ? The excavations at Tell deir Alla (1960-1967). Histoire de l’art to Pointillism with Signac and

to Pointillism with Signac and Cross

Le folklore japonais regorge d'étranges créatures qui renvoient à un univers ancestral où les forces de la nature

ce Choix d’écrits a été édité par Denis Rousset avec la collaboration de Philippe Gauthier et Ivana Savalli-Lestrade

les ethnographes dépeignent des femmes ignorantes

or their master

Digging up the Bible ? The excavations at Tell deir Alla (1960-1967). Histoire de l’art to Pointillism with Signac andThis is the account of a remarkable excavation. It started with a modest dig on an unremarkable tell in Jordan. The name of the tell does not occur in the Bible, and no ancient town of any importance was to be expected under the rubble. The excavator Henk Franken had not yet made a name for himself within the archaeological community. And yet, from 1960 onwards history was being (re)written at Tell Deir Alla. To discover the secrets of the tell, the