

Each story stands by itself, but also shows how history affects the present time of each “generation.”

Then, step by step, the reader is brought back to the present through amazing vignettes of history from Ur and his family many thousands of years ago to events surrounding the little town during David’s time, Herod’s time, the Crusaders’ time and more.

At each point, every amazing find comes alive with the possibilities of what lives and events may have surrounded it. Slowly the archaeologists dig deeper and deeper past one find after another, backwards in history. When archaeologists begin uncovering relics in Tell Makor, they are also uncovering the lives of countless people who went before them.
