In front of the Rockefeller
Today we went to the Rockefeller museum, there was a lot of cool artifacts there, but things were labeled poorly, so it was hard to know what you were looking at sometimes. We had fun though! Among the stuff they had there were some plastered sculls from Jericho. Apparently, after someone died people would go back and put painted plaster over their skull, sometimes with sea-shells for eyes, probably to make the person live again, sort of. It's like the Egyptians preserving the body for the afterlife. They're super creepy, but I took a photo anyways since they were something I recognized.
Also at the museum were some metal furniture fittings which Dr. Barchay had mentioned in class. The pieces had letters (Aramaic I think) scratched in them so when someone was constructing the furniture they knew which piece went where. Not much else happened today, a little bit of homework, and a movie night tonight.

Reconstructed furniture

Letter on one of the metal fittings
Skulls from Jericho

Courtyard of the museum

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