Handout about Blogging Projects

Today while presenting I told people about the handout I had made and realized that I should attach it some way to this blog. However, there doesn't seem to be a way to put in an attachment, so here is the handout. The main thing is that it has links to other things that I wanted to share. I did not include the PowerPoint because it was mainly pictures that I was going to talk about and all of them can be seen in the blogs with explanations.

Mediterranean Odyssey Handout

http://2009-odyssey.blogspot.com - Turkey, Israel, Italy, and Greece

I see this as a chance for me to share what I see and learn as I travel. I hope by sharing the experience the trip will be rich for me AND for anyone who follows.
This is the fourth time that I have blogged while traveling. Each time I learn new things. All of the pictures and information from my past blogs are still available online.

1. http://malahinitx.blogspot.com - October 2005 Subjects: Corinth, the archaeological site, museum, volunteering in the museum, the old town, the modern town, schools, the canal, Greek and Roman archtechture, visit to Olympia (site of the first Olympics), modern Greek holidays
2. http://jfriesen.edublogs.org - June 2006 Subjects: participation in a dig, other interesting sites, burial, Ephesus Turkey, Arsinoe, bones,
3. http://jfriesen.my-ecoach.com - June 2007 Subjects: Sparta, Epidaurus Opera, jobs in archaeology, Micenae,

Web 2.0 has made a huge difference in the possibilities for this kind of travel and collaboration. On this current trip I am trying out several widgets that participants can access and manipulate like a Google Map and a place for becoming a follower. I hope that people will make connections. I am also really glad for the opportunity to Skype with you!

Here are some good places to search for other projects that you can participate in OR to post your own projects that others might join:

Global Schoolhouse - http://globalschoolhouse.net -This is a long running site where you can place your project or find other projects and make connections. It also runs annual contests and has many other interesting resources

Teachers Connecting - http://teachersconnecting.com - This is a new site for teachers to connect to other teachers who are interested in similar things based on experience and comfort level. It is connected with podcast that is fantastic http://teachersconnecting.com/podcast/

http://malahinitx.blogspot.com (my professional blog)

Armadillo Poll and NECC Webcast

I just looked at the poll that just closed and we have a TIE! I will post a VERY SHORT poll for a run off between the names Sheriff Bob and Dill. Please vote as soon as possible!

I spent today trying to get Internet set up so that I could present at NECC from the Coloseum in Rome. It all worked at this end and there were a few very encouraging people who attended from Boston, Ohio and Ireland among other places, but I am not sure if there was success connecting at NECC in Washinton DC. I will make sure to put up the handout and ppt that I talked about as soon as possible.

Wrapping Up Israel Two

I just arrived in Italy last night and unfortunately I do not have Internet at the apartment where I am staying... so I am writing this from an Internet Cafe near the Termini Train Station.
There are 9 people who have voted for the name. TOMORROW IS THE FINAL DAY!

The people in Bethlehem are very friendly. Everywhere we went people offered us Arabic coffee (a small cup of strong coffee with cardemon), tea or lemonade. Sometimes they gave us Sprite or Coke. One day when we were visiting the Wi’am office they first brought us coffee and then tea and after that lemonade. I guess it is good because it is very hot there and you should drink lots of liquids! On our last evening there we went out for a typical Palestinian Barbeque. We went to a restaurant where there were grills out in front and lots of chicken being grilled. We sat at a table and the waiter brought us lots of different small salads on plates (humus, tahini, eggplant salad (baba ganoush), chopped tomatoes and cucumber, and others that I don’t have names for. Then they brought a plate of the barbequed chicken to the table. There is always pita bread that you dip into all of the different salads. We had forks, but I think the traditional way to eat is to tear off a piece of pita to pick salad up a bit and eat it. The chicken was delicious.

The day ended with a surprise. Last week both The Professor and I had our birthdays (June 18 and 19) and somehow they had heard about it and so they brought us a cheesecake decorated with our names and with candles. I don’t think this is the traditional Palestinian way to celebrate birthdays though! It was so nice of them. We also accompanied some Wi’am staff while they delivered groceries to people in need. They delivered toilet paper, sugar, salt, rice and olive oil to about 100 people in the last few days. The person who drove us around had an older car that was manual (you have to shift manually). When all four of us (the driver, Zoughbi, The Professor and myself) and the groceries were in the car it could not make it up some of those hills. Twice we had to get out and the professor and Zoughbi pushed the car.

One of the main memories I will have from visiting here is the roads. I was totally amazed at the way that people drive around the town. Many of the roads were so skinny I wouldn’t try to drive ONE car down them let alone two! Also Bethlehem is built on hills, so the roads are more like terraces that weave up and down and sometimes they are pretty steep. Sometimes you do a hairpin turn where you cannot see the oncoming traffic at all. Often there was two way traffic and parking where I would imagine only a one-way street. The people have developed a way of navigating these streets. They never seem to slow down and they don’t wait for other cars, but there seems to be some polite understanding about who gets to go next. I never saw an accident and I felt safe with the people who drove us around, but I wouldn’t want to give it a try!

Wrapping Up Israel One

Last night we spent the night in a hotel in Tel Aviv. The hotel was across from the beach, so we went out to the beach, sat in soft sand and watched the sunset in the West. Beautiful! Then we slept well in our air-conditioned hotel room until 4 am when the alarm went off. This is our armadillo friend in the Tel Aviv Airport. We name him/her on Tuesday!

Today is a travel day Israel to Cypress to Athens to Rome. All day… Oh well, I think I will get a lot of reading done.

Here are some last thoughts about Bethlehem before I switch to writing about Rome.

Hebron-This is an important place for Christians, Muslims and Jews because it is traditional site of the burial place of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca. Abraham is remembered as the father of all three religions. There are important stories about them in the Old Testament, Koran and the Hebrew Scriptures. Hebron is listed as the place that Abraham buried his wife Sarah. It was a Jewish sacred site and then in the Middle Ages Christians built a church there. Saladin, an Arabian ruler, conquered the area and the church was turned into a mosque. Right now it is still a mosque, but there is an area for Jewish worshippers.

Church of the Nativity-In Bethlehem the site that most of the tourists come to see is the Church of the Nativity. It is built over a cave, which is the traditional site for the birth of Jesus. Three Christian groups share the building; Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholics, and Armenian Orthodox. The entry is really small and brings you into a large Orthodox church. You can tell it is orthodox because of the front of the church where there is an iconostasis (altar area specific to the Orthodox). Then you go down some stairs to the nativity cave. From there you can go out another way to the Armenian church and that connects to the Catholic Church. Lots of busses come with tourists who go to the church and many have worship services in the cave before they go on to the next place.

Children in Park-On Saturday before we left we went with all of the Wi’am kids (their summer program) to a park. This week was Danish week and there were Danish Lutherans who prepared some music for the kids. This is the one place that I saw grass and swings and shade trees. It is a really nice park. The kids seemed to have lots of fun running around. The group gathered for a performance of the Danish group. There were lots of drums and rhythm instruments and movement so that all of the kids could participate. The leaders brought falafal sandwiches and bottled water for everyone. Falafal are delicious balls made with ground chickpeas and spices and then deep-fried. They look sort of like meatballs, but they have no meat. A sandwich is actually pita bread with falafal, humus and some chopped tomatos and cucumber. I think they are delicious.

The Wi'am Center

We are here in Bethlehem to visit our friend Zoughbi Zoughbi (seated). This picture shows him with Usama (standing) who works with him and drove us around to see things in the area. Zoughbi is the first person I met that has the same first name as last name. He is a very important person in Bethlehem and runs the Wi’am Center. He is also an elected member of the Bethlehem city council.

Wi’am means "congenial relations" in Arabic and their goal is to make peace in smaller and larger ways in Bethlehem. The topic of conflict in Bethlehem is hard to write about. In my own blog I write a little more about my personal reflections. For this blog it is important to explain that Israel is an important land to many different people. Israel is a place that Jews see as the promised land. It is also land where Palestinian Arabs lived for hundreds of years. Many Palestinian Arabs are Muslim, but a large minority (over 40% in Bethlehem) is Christian. Some of the Palestinians have used violence as a way to try to get their land back. Others are stuck in the middle watching their family land disappear and yet not wanting to hurt others. Some Israelis also have used violence against Palestinians and others want to see the problems resolved in a fair way. It is a very difficult and tragic situation. The solution of the Israeli government is to build a huge wall to separate Israelis from Palestinians. In the meantime the Israeli government is also claiming new land by building settlements in Palestinian areas. I think that anyone can understand the strong feelings that people have on both sides about being threatened by the other side.

Every day Zoughbi (with 11 employees) at the Wi'am Center does conflict mediation with people who come in for help. People come for help with solving problems of family disagreements, conflict over ownership of property, and with needs for food or other help. Wi’am also has a summer program for kids. The kids come and have fun and do arts and crafts and are occupied with positive things.

Wi'am works at many different levels. First they focus on the people and try to help them through their conflict mediation. Then they are involved in teaching people how to stand up for themselves in peaceful ways. Finally they work at an International level helping people outside the area understand the situation here. They have a new building right next to the wall and want to beautify it with a “peace” garden as a way of non-violent resistance. Zoughbi says that trees are one way to communicate permanence and peace, so he wants to plant lots of them.

At the Wi’am Center we also met Jason who is an American working with an agency called Paideia. He saw my t-shirt and was amazed! He ACTUALLY attended my school, Barton Creek Elementary, in third grade! It really is a small world. It was amazing also that I happened to be wearing THAT t-shirt on THAT day!

p.s. The issue of Israel and Palestinians is very complicated. On both sides people have experienced many losses and hurts. I am writing about this to tell a little about what I observed, but I really don't want to push any particular side. I would like to see both sides come together and work for peace.

Staying in Bethlehem

The professor and I decided that it would be good to visit a friend of ours in Bethlehem while we were in Israel. Bethlehem is a complicated place right now, so it was good that we have a friend to help us arrange the visit. We are staying with his brother’s family, Issa and Diane Zoughbi. They have a bed and breakfast in their house where they regularly have people come and stay. Here is the website that tells about their church and hospitality house. House of Bread Church (Bethlehem means House of Bread in Hebrew)

Here is a view of Bethlehem from the patio where we are staying. It is beautiful. The house has about four floors. In the basement there is a room for Sunday School. On the next floor is an apartment for visitors, then the church and then there is the level the family lives on and finally the guest apartment. There is a kitchen, bathroom, two bedrooms, a living room and a patio!

The whole family is very friendly and warm and we feel comfortable here. They have one son studying at Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma, then there are two sons and a daughter here. I will have to put a picture of the whole family in later if I get one, but here I have just added a few of their pictures of Pastor Issa, Diana and Grace. The first evening we took a drive to a place just outside of the main town where we could get apricots. The apricots are only available for about a week, so they like to get lots of them and then make jam.

One new food they taught us about is a spice called zaatar. It is something they eat a lot. It has thyme and other spices and sesame seeds. They dip pita bread in olive oil and then into zaatar. I really like it. Also, Palestinian barbeque is really good. Today we ate lunch at a Palestinian restaurant. The first thing they do is to bring you pita bread and lots of different salads. We probably had about 15 small plates of different things to eat with the pita bread. There was tabuli, humus, tahini, pickles, cut up cucumber and tomato, something that seemed like an eggplant salad and other things. Then they bring the main meal which is usually roasted meat. Today I had a dish with chicken that had been baked with lots of onions. At the end of the meal they bring a really sweet dessert like baklava and arabic coffee. It is really strong coffee with cardamon in a small cup. Diana has been making breakfast for us in the mornings and visiting with us and then during the day our friend, Zoughbi Zoughbi (he has the same name twice!) has arranged for us to visit other thing which I will be writing about in other posts. Tomorrow I will tell you about the Wi'am Center.

VOTE NOW

It is time to vote for the armadillo's name. I have opened the vote and it will be open until Tuesday, June 30th and we will see then which name is chosen!

More about Kibbutzim

One of my wonderful followers (or at least commenters) asked these questions about Kibbutzim:

Tell us what a kibbutz is like. Do people live in separate homes? How big is it? How many families live there? Do you eat meals together? Why do people choose to live on a kibbutz? Are you allowed to go outside the kibbutz? Is there a school on the kibbutz?

I asked our archaeologist friends, Dan and Michael who have stayed in this kibbutz while digging at Omrit for many years. The kibbutzim movement was very important in the 1970’s. Here is their answer:

Many American Jews moved to Israel thinking they would create a utopian communal type of living. In the beginning the kids even stayed separate from their parents in the children’s house all week long and only went home to be with their parents on weekends. All of the meals were communal and everyone was paid the same stipend no matter how important they were or what they did for work. There were small houses where everyone lived and then lots of farmland. Each kibbutz produced different things. Now the kibbutzim are changing. Most of the people living on the kibbutzim are older. Many of the younger people have moved to the cities.

Every kibbutz has a business that provides work and money for the people who live there. Many kibbutzim have an area where there are cabins for people to stay in when they vacation in the country.

There are no longer communal meals. Everyone cooks for themselves in their own homes. There is a small grocery store where people can get the basics. There is also a pub and a swimming pool. People are totally free to go where ever they want on a kibbutz. I think there used to be schools, but am guessing that there are not now.

The Jewish Virtual Library information about kibbutz

Tomorrow will be about my visit to Palestine.

Problems with Poll

For some reason the poll is designed so that I cannot change it once anyone has voted. Three votes have been cast and each time in order to add the new name I have had to delete votes. So far we have one vote for each Arnie, Armee, and Yolanda. Right now I am just collecting names and then I will put up the actual vote. Please suggest names and get ready for the final vote this coming weekend! If you have already voted you should be able to vote again when I put up the final poll.

Questions from Wisconsin

I got these questions from students in Wisconsin. Next time you ask questions send me a picture to represent you (if you don't want me to post a real picture of your class you can send your logo or something) and I will post it!

QUESTION Have you seen anything valuable yet?
MY ANSWER What is your definition of something valuable? I have seen lots of things that are extremely valuable to me like the mud baths in Pamukkale and all of the different and interesting people. But I think that you probably mean valuable like being worth a lot of money. Most of what I have seen looks like rocks and rubble to me, but to an archaeologist even a broken pot piece is valuable. The early archaeologists only wanted to find complete pots and big things like statues. They threw away anything that did not look interesting. Now archaeologists keep just about everything they can identify. When they do find something that is valuable it is moved to a museum so that it doesn’t get stolen from the archaeological site. I was amazed to hear that even big blogs of stone that are carved are stolen. Does this picture look like it is valuable? At the end of the post I will put a picture of what it looked like after it was cleaned up!

QUESTION Who build the theater and terrace houses?
MY ANSWER People in the first century (that is up to year 100) built the theater and the terrace houses. Actually, slaves probably did the building. You can see that there are huge stones, so it really took a lot of workers to move them and put them in the right places. Very rich people could hire artists to paint the walls or to carve statues and make mosaics on the floor. It is easier to find evidence of what the rich people did. We know that very rich people owned two of the seven terrace houses by other evidence. We think that many slaves just slept on the floor in their master’s back rooms. They probably didn’t own much.

QUESTION Why can you hear in the theater when there are no microphones?
MY ANSWER The theater has amazing acoustics. The way it is built the sound on the stage in the front goes up and out so that the audience can hear. Here is an experiment that you can do. First stand in a line and have someone stand several yards away from you and talk in a normal voice. Can everyone hear? Now do the same thing only instead of a line have everyone stand in a semi-circle around the person who is talking. Is it better?

The reason that this works is that sounds come in waves through the air (like in cartoons coming out of a speaker. As the sound travels it gets quieter. In a curved theater the sound is trapped and can only go up from the central stage. It is amazing that someone can stand on the stage and still be heard by people in the last row! Here is a picture of a performance of an opera in one of these theaters called Epidaurus (this one is in Greece).

And now for the valuable item that looked like something to throw away. When it is carefully cleaned by an expert it looks like this:

Skyping with Vermont

I am still in Israel and I just finished talking with a group of teacher in Vermont who were taking a course on using Web 2.0 tools in the classroom. It was amazing to be able to connect with them. It was short, but exciting. I hope it motivates these teachers to try something in the future. They had to guess where I was calling from, so I used these pictures to give them some clues. The bread and butter that is hard to see here has Hebrew writing.

There was one thing that I wish I had answered differently. Someone there asked about the reaction to Obama’s speech.

I was struck in Turkey at how interested in Obama many people we talked to were. I told them how in Turkey I talked to a guy from Zimbabwe who is studying in Oslo, Norway and was on the trip to learn about archaeology in Turkey. He was very positive and hopeful in his comments, In Turkey the comments were all really positive.

In Israel it is different though and I actually have not talked to any Israelis yet, so I cannot honestly answer the question, but now I will make that one thng to explore while I am here. My American archaeologist friends told me that many Israelis are worried about how the Obama foreign policy to Israel will work out. They do not like his middle name and are concerned that he is really Arab. There are also others who do like Obama. It is complicated, like everything.

The Skype conference was fun! I would do that again! Anyone else want to Skype? If so, just comment her or email me at janicef@jfriesen.net.

A New Mascot and a Kibbutz

The new mascot to look for in some of the photos that I post is an armadillo with a cowboy hat. Texas has the armadillo as the state animal. The card on this armadillo says, “Texans have fallen in love with this mammal through the years in so far as to adopt it as the state mascot in 1981”. I need to come up with a name for this mascot and so I am going to put up another poll and I hope you will all vote. But first of all I need suggestions of names for the poll. What should we name the armadillo?

Yesterday was another LONG traveling day. Here is what we did: 7:30 am taxi to the port at Kusadisi, 9:00 am ferry to Samos, 11:30 fight to Athens, 3:00ish (I can’t remember) flight to Cyprus, 9:00 flight to Tel Aviv, Israel, two hour taxi drive to ???? where I am now. We arrived at about 2:30 am. In spite of the long day and the many types of transport we did not lose our luggage and everything went as planned, so it was a miracle. But it is no surprise that I am tired today.

I woke up at 10:30 am in a strange place. The professor was gone. The poor guy had to go to meetings all day today starting at 7:30 am! I still don’t really know where I am. It is a kibbutz and I did take a walk and find a small grocery store where I could buy some food to eat. My main problem is that I cannot read the signs. I did find one with a spoon and fork and it led me to the grocery store. I also finished reading my book. I have read two books and listened to another already on this trip. I read “On Beauty” by Zadie Smith last week because it was in the hotel library. I had to read it before I left Turkey, so I read a lot. I have also been reading “Three Cups of Tea, One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace One School At a Time” which is an amazing true story of Greg Mortinson and the beginning of the Central Asia Institute. His stories make my trip sound extremely easy. I listened to “Tribes” by Seth Godin, I need to listen to that one again. It is thought provoking and I am not sure I agree with all of the things he says.

I just got done Skyping with Bob Dunn who is one of the Followers of the Odyssey. I am going to Skype with him and his class tomorrow! They are in Vermont, USA.

Skyping from Israel

Tomorrow evening if everything goes as planned I will be Skyping with Bob Dunn and two other colleagues of his as they present to a class in Vermont (I think of other teachers....) about how to use Skype in the classroom. I am very excited about this and hope it works out. Bob, if you read this comment adding your home email address because I lost it!

I decided to take down the comment area on the right column. It was making the blog download really slowly and I think it is confusing to have two different places to comment. If you want to comment please click on the word comment below the blog post. These always have a number next to them (0 comments) for example to show how many comments there are. I am looking forward to hearing from you all.

Clearing Up Loose Ends in Ephesus

Well, this is my final night in Ephesus and it has been a relaxing day. There was no group visit to an archaeological site and no lectures. I thought it might be a good time to tie up some loose ends and add a few pictures that I really don’t want to leave out. First, in case you missed it my sister (whose appreciated comments are common on my blog) sent this link to a panoramic tour of Ephesus: http://www.sailturkey.com/panoramas/ephesus/index.htm I thought that some of you armchair tourists might enjoy the site!

Next: latrines…. I heard from one fan of the blog that they really liked seeing the photo of the bathroom. So, when I came across a public latrine from ancient times I thought I should add it to the blog. First there is a picture of what you actually see at the archaeological site, then there is a drawing to show you better how it really worked. The photo is taken from one end and the drawing from the other end. There was a channel of moving water under seats that are no longer there. Archaeologists know this because they have found examples of ones that are more complete.

Next: The Cosmic Fly I thought that this picture was worth including. When we visited Hierapolis part of the archaeological site has a lot of tourists having fun. There is a pool at this site that was built around fallen columns, so people wear bathing suits and swim around the columns. There is also a large restaurant (like you might see at Disneyland) and while we were sitting at a table we saw The Cosmic Fly. Have you ever wanted to take off on a flying carpet? Well, this is where you can create the illusion. There is a set up with a green screen with a Turkish carpet on the floor. People pay and get in and are filmed “flying”. Of course, they cannot see where they are going and actually just stay on the carpet, but the photographer tells them what motions to do with their hands and what expressions to have in different parts. Then through the magic of technology the green is replaced with a movie of aerial flight around the archaeological site! You can go away with a “realistic looking” movie on CD of your flight!

This has been a very interesting visit. The group we traveled with was mainly from Scandinavia. This is what we call three countries from northern Europe: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland. Look on Google Earth to see where these countries are. Iceland is just an island way up north. I had never met anyone from Iceland and rarely talked to anyone from the other countries. It was great meeting people from other countries and spending some time together.

Finally, here is a picture of Ricky Raccoon saying goodbye from the breakfast table. He left Ephesus on an earlier plane with his owner, but I have good news. You will soon be meeting someone who will take his place.

Going to a Hamam (Turkish Bath)

After the visit to the Seven Sleepers I had a very Turkish experience. I went with a group of other women in our group to the Turkish Bath. The picture to the left is NOT the one we went to, but it is similar. We were in a room with a domed ceiling and laying on a marble table in the middle. Around the sides there were stalls with curtains. I always wondered what a public bath was like!

Here is what we did: First we dropped off our valuables to be locked up at the main desk. Then we went to a small room to change to wearing a towel. We all decided that we wanted to wear our bathing suits under the towel, but I am not sure what most Turkish women do. When we were changed the man who was in charge walked us to a really large domed room and told us to shower and then to lay down in the middle. We weren’t sure what he meant by showering, but he sat each one of us down and poured water over our heads! We then lay down in the center on a large marble “table” and sweated. It was hot and steamy in that room.

When we were about to get desperately hot two men came in and we each took turns at different treatments. First a man with a rough sponge-like thing rubbed our whole bodies to scrape off all of the dirt and sweat. Then we moved to a spot where another man created a whole pillow-case full of soap bubbles which he dropped on us and rubbed on our fronts and then on our backs. Then they asked us to go into a cold shower and rinse off. Wow! Did that feel good! Then we all sat and had Turkish tea while one at a time each of us went and had an oil massage. This was a great experience. It was fun to go and do it with a group, but I think it would be difficult to go by myself to such a strange place. An added bonus is this chart of how to say English numbers that I though you would enjoy. It was behind the main desk where you pay!

Seven Sleepers

This morning when I looked the vote was 9 to 1 that I should go to the Seven Sleepers! The one NO vote was someone here in the group who thought it wasn't worth getting up so early! Yesterday, the day of the trip the vote was 5 to 1 and so woke up early to go to the Seven Sleeper site. Ricky did too. It was a good thing to do. What I thought was going to be a quick and boring visit turned out to be pretty interesting. A specialist met us on the site and opened the lock so that we could get into the area that they don’t open to the public. He told us that the site was actually much older than they first thought it was. He showed us how the tombs were built under the ground of the church. All of them had been opened and robbed of the contents. He explained to us that this was the area that people came to see and the Seven Sleepers. We went under the floor and walked through a tunnel that visitors would have used. We also saw bushes with white rags tied to them. Pilgrims tied the rags on trees as prayers when they were visiting the site. Both Muslims and Christians know the story and think of it as a holy site.



We also visited a site called St. Luke’s Tomb. It was originally named St. Luke’s Tomb because the archaeologist who first found it in the 1800's saw a bull with a cross on it. This is St. Luke’s symbol and the shape of the site made it look like a tomb. As it turns out it had nothing at all to do with St. Luke. The archaeologist explained that when he did a thorough dig on this site in 2000-2004 and looked for things he found a water channel coming from up in the hills where there was an aqueduct. He also found other evidence that it was a fountain. He also found an area that he came to the conclusion was a closed area with a door that could be used as a refrigerator. He explained that he thought that this was a storage area that was kept cool by the water coming from the aqueduct. It could be closed up and people who came to Ephesus to sell meat could leave it in this storage area (actually a refrigerator!) temporarily. The thing that was amazing to me was that the site had a sign in front of it with totally wrong information! When the sign was put up they had realized that this was not a tomb, but the theory at the time was that it was a greco-roman ruin that was later made into a basilica. This is what the sign said. It sort of bothered me that the archaeologists knew new things, but had not changed the signs. The reason for this is that the archaeologists are not doing this work for tourists. They work really hard and after lots of time looking at the evidence they write scholarly works. They talk to each other about what they find, but rarely have the money or time to put up new signs.