This is almost as much a personal story of luck and adventure as it is an archaeological story. It tells of my first dig—my own dig, that is—after graduating with a B.A. in archaeology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My story will perhaps explain why, despite the scientific advances and the careful, methodical techniques that characterize most excavations today, there is still so much romance in, and attraction to, archaeology. The reason is simple: the mystery remains; the unexpected still happens. In short, one never knows. It happened to me!

Read the rest of How I Found a Fourth-Century B.C. Papyrus Scroll on My First Time Out! in the online Biblical Archaeology Society library.