Sudan has a long history of archaeology and has more pyramids than Egypt. As more than 90% of archaeology students at the University of Khartoum are female,women archaeologists are set to dominate the field.
In Israel, there’s a saying that if you spit, you’ll hit an archaeological discovery. According to the Christian Gospels, this is what happened in the northern Israeli village of Migdal on the Sea of Galilee, the birthplace of Mary Magdalene, a disciple of Jesus Christ. The Israeli government intended to widen a major route, but officials had to make sure that no archaeologically significant sites were paved over beforehand