Work continues on the construction of the ballroom at the White House where the East Wing once stood. Here are new images showing the ongoing construction. | AP

EL ARAJ EXCAVATION 2025 - Day 3 Today we finally started to dig! Pay attention to the ground - we're at ground level, no sign of any digging, right? Wait until you see what happens over the next few days! This site sits just east of where the Jordan River flows into the Sea of Galilee, about 1 o'clock on the lakeshore. A quick-moving fire scorched the area in July - but miraculously(?) left the old Byzantine church (you'll see more about it in an upcoming post) completely unaffected! Plus fire b

At Burnt Mesa Pueblo, in one of the archaeological excavation sites, the artifact density (number of prehistoric artifacts per 10 liters of sediment was 1.5 (Source: Bandelier Archaeological Excavation Project: Summer 1990 Excavations at Burnt Mesa Pueblo and Casa del Rito, edited by Kohler, Washington State University Department of Anthropology). Suppose you are going to dig up and examine 50 liters of sediment at this site. Let r=0,1,2,3, …be a random variable that represents the number of pre