Authors

Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron (“Light at the End of the Tunnel”) is the director of excavations for the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Jerusalem 3000 project. Since 1994 he has excavated at Robinson’s Arch (at the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount), the City of David and the Dung Gate. He is also a senior lecturer at Haifa University. His most recent article for BAR, “God Knows Their Names,” (BAR 22:02), was based on his excavations in the Mamilla neighborhood of Jerusalem, just outside Jaffa Gate.

Co-author Eli Shukron received his archaeological training at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and assisted Reich at the Mamilla dig. Shukron conducted the rescue excavation at Pisgat Zeev, north of Jerusalem, where he discovered a Second Temple period farmhouse and a ritual bath.