Archaeology
The site of Tell ed-Duweir was first excavated in 4 seasons between 1932 and 1938 by the Wellcome-Marston Archaeological Research Expedition. The work was led initially by James Leslie Starkey until he was murdered by Arab bandits. The effort was completed by Olga Tufnell. In 1966 and 1968, in a dig which focused mainly on the "Solar Shrine", Yohanan Aharoni worked the site on behalf of Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University
More recently, excavation, and later restoration, work was conducted between 1973 and 1994 by a Tel Aviv University Institute of Arachaeology and Israel Exploration Society team led by David Ussishkin.
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