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Twenty-Six Years and Still Digging

John Brown University recently received an anonymous gift of $1 million to further expand the endowment for the university's Abila Archeology Project in northern Jordan. We speak with the director of the project, who has been working at the site since 1990. He says while Abila may not be a Biblical site, it does give archeologists clues to what life was like, from the bronze age through to the advent of Islam.

Timothy Dennis is KUAF's strategic technical planner and producer for Ozarks at Large.