Word: aharoni
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Down the Cliffs. Dr. Aharoni put his main camp on the upland near the north side of the wadi. He sent men with walkie-talkie radios to the south side...
Watching through binoculars, they radioed instructions as their colleagues gingerly lowered archaeologists on ropes toward the black mouths of caves part way down the cliff. Says Aharoni: "It was like trying to put thread into a needle blindfolded while someone directs you over the telephone...
Most of the caves had been cleaned out by Bedouins, but Aharoni found several that they had missed. Inside, the floors were foot-deep with bird droppings and dust, which rose in choking clouds around the explorers. In one, amidst the midden, was a vulture's nest. With unliterary impartiality, the vultures had used fragments of parchment to complete the nest. On one fragment 16 verses of the Book of Exodus were written in Hebrew script that was current in Jerusalem about 130 A.D. This and other evidence convinced Israeli scholars that the cave had been a refuge...
Arrows for the Romans. Searching cave after cave, Dr. Aharoni and his men found many traces of the ancient refugees. Roman coins of widely separated dates suggested that a remnant of the Jewish resistance force held out for a century. From one of the caves came a woman's comb, fragments of clothing, and a piece used in chess or some similar game. In another were arrows with cane shafts, no doubt intended for use against Roman legionnaires. At each end of the wadi, Dr. Aharoni's expedition found the ruins of blockhouses built by the Romans...
...Aharoni found poignant evidence that the Roman strategy had succeeded: the skeletons of six people who had apparently died rather than surrender...