Exploration
In 1885, G. Schumacher surveyed the Wadi el-'Arab and mentioned Tall Zira'a. N. Glueck visited the Tall Zira'a in 1942. In March 1978, a two-day archaeological rescue investigation was initiated by the Department of Antiquities into the course of the Wadi el-'Arab dam project. In September 1983, this was followed up by a brief archaeological survey supervised by J. W. Hanbury-Tenison in the Wadi el-'Arab. In August 2001, a survey on Tall Zira'a (5.88 ha) and in its surroundings was conducted by the Biblical Archaeological Institute Wuppertal, directed by D. Vieweger. In September 2003, he started the first excavation campaign. Since 2004, the project has continued with two campaigns a year as a co-operative project of the Biblical Archaeological Institute Wuppertal and the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Amman (since 2006 also Jerusalem), directed by D. Vieweger and J. Häser.
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