WAGEMAKERS, BART (ed.) Archaeology in the ‘Land of Tells and Ruins’. A History of Excavations in the Holy Land Inspired by the Photographs and Accounts of Leo Boer.

* Based on a travel account and 700 photographs by Leo Boer (1926-2009), a former student of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem who visited many archaeological sites in the area of present-day Israel and the Palestinian Territories in the years 1953-1954. These documents inspired 20 internationally-renowned scholars – many of whom excavated at the sites they describe – to report on what we know today of nine particular sites chosen from the many that Leo Boer visited 70 years ago: Jerusalem, Khirbet et-Tell (¢i?), Samaria & Sebaste, Tell Balata (Shechem), Tell es-Sultan (Jericho), Khirbet Qumran, Caesarea, Megiddo, and Bet Shean. Rather than focusing on the history of these sites, the contributors describe the history of the archaeological expeditions.