Gaza technicians link animal bones to distant past
Native technicians are behind some big archaeological discoveries in the Gaza Strip.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Before a group of visitors at Qasr al-Basha, also known as the Pasha’s Palace Museum, in the old town of al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City, tour guide Nariman Khalleh performed her job skillfully but was not as clear in explaining when it came to faunal remains.
Khalleh, along with her colleagues working in the field of antiquities in the Gaza Strip, enrolled in a training program on faunal analysis, a branch of archaeology focusing on the remains of animals at archaeological sites.
The program is part of a series of courses held by the French Premiere Urgence Internationale nongovernmental organization, under the supervision of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in Gaza.
It is also part of the organization’s Intiqal 2030 program that was launched in 2017, which aims to rehabilitate prominent archaeological sites in the Gaza Strip, including the Byzantine Church in Jabalia in northern Gaza and the Saint Hilarion Monastery (Tell Umm Amer) in central Gaza.
