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Gaza technicians link animal bones to distant past

Native technicians are behind some big archaeological discoveries in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian workers clean a section of the archaeological site of the Saint Hilarion Monastery, one of the largest Christian monasteries in the Middle East, in Tell Umm al-Amr close to Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, March 19, 2013.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Before a group of visitors at Qasr al-Basha, also known as the Pasha’s Palace Museum, in the old town of al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City, tour guide Nariman Khalleh performed her job skillfully but was not as clear in explaining when it came to faunal remains.

Khalleh, along with her colleagues working in the field of antiquities in the Gaza Strip, enrolled in a training program on faunal analysis, a branch of archaeology focusing on the remains of animals at archaeological sites. 

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