ARCHAEOLOGY

DID JESUS EAT QUICHE?

As a ceramics specialist, I have devoted my career to understanding what pottery tells us about the people who manufactured and used it. In the process, I have learned many interesting things. Potsherds are, by far, the most common find at excavations around

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