Success in Fund Raising Tour
Posted by templemount on 19/09/2010
Aran Yardeni’s fund raising tour was a major success, and soon we will establish an archaeological lab for analysis and publication of the finds. Aran’s tour was initiated by two wonderful people, Marty Peretz and Joseph Finder, who visited the sifting site as tourists and were very impressed with the work we are doing. They realized the difficulties we are having in bringing the finds to publication and volunteered to help organize a fund raising tour. Marty Peretz is a Harvard University lecturer in government studies and is the publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic magazine. Joseph Finder is the author of several best-selling thriller novels, including Vanished, Power Play, and Killer Instinct.
We have much work ahead of us now. We plan to establish an archaeological lab in which we will sort, document, and study our finds. We have already recovered approximately 10,000 special finds – weights, arrowheads, jewelry, coins, etc. In addition, we have about 40,000 baskets of prevalent finds – pottery shards, bones, glass fragments, etc. We plan to establish a special website for the publication of special finds that we need assistance in identifying. By means of this website we will be sharing the research with scholars all over the world. Our goal is to finish the research in two to three years. With God’s help we will also complete our publications in this time frame.
Thank you to all the good people who assisted in this fund raising mission, whether by donating funds, arranging lecture venues, or by introducing us to potential donors.
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