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The Lost City of Bethsaida |
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The Lost City of Bethsaida |
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Prepared to go, David Rotterman, Brian Shaffer and Cec Barton wait to leave Omaha's Eppley Airfield for Ben Gurion Airport in Israel.
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In antiquity, Bethsaida was a port city on the shores of the sea of Galilee. Today it is two miles from the water and this beautiful sunset.
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Bethsaida Excavations Project Director, Richard Freund Ph.D., shows Del Weber Ed.D., Chancellor Emeritus, University of Nebraska at Omaha and Thomas Gouttierre, Dean of International Studies and Programs at UNO, a storage cellar dating from the first century CE.
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A UNO student stops to take a picture of one of the net tents used to keep the heat of the sun away from the excavators as they work.
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While visiting the Bethsaida excavation site, Chancellor Emeritus Del Weber talks with Chief Archeologist, Rami Arav Ph.D. and Project Director, Richard Freund.
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After being excavated each find is washed before being sent on to the museum for further examination. Here 3 diggers talk with UNO-TV videographer Cec Barton.
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Much of the work done at the Bethsaida site is done by volunteers. Here Father Mike Fitzpatrick from the archdiocese of Omaha shows Chancellor Emeritus Del Weber the plot where a group of high school students from Canada are working.
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