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Favorite thing: If you keep a good eye out among the rocks and stones that make up the old walls of the city, you may just chance to see one of the hundreds of lizards who make their home here. As you can see in the photo they are almost perfectly camoflaged for desert life. You can normally spot them if they move, but even then it often seems as if it was only a trick of your sight.
Written Jul 15, 2008
Favorite thing: When you walk around you should take notice of the micro and not just the macro. Many people see the sunset, the building, the sky, etc. But if you refocus your eyes and see what is close or small, you will sometimes find a new world. Take a look at this building block in a wall of the fortress. Just a block, right. Take a closer look and see if you can find an "aerial view" of a mountainous landscape....
Look INTO the well, not just at the railing around it and the top few stones, lean WAY over and see what is at the bottom, sometimes the building stones are different or there may be a type of plaster....
The last photo shows a "line" on one of the walls. The reconstruction archeologists use this to denote where the original structure was (below the line) and what has been reconstructed (above the line).
Updated Jul 14, 2008
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When you walk around you should take notice of the micro and not just the macro. Many people see the sunset, the building, the sky, etc. But if you refocus your...
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Tel Arad, close to home, flowers and antiquities
When the Arad Iris blooms it is time to get your friends together and get your rear end out to the fields to find the flowers. This time I got Liza, Natasha and Dima to come along "for the ride". We...
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Just a few kilometers outside of the new Arad towards Beersheba you can see archeological structures on a hill north of the street. These are the remainings of the ancient Arad and nowadays one of the...
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