UPCOMING DIG at Kursi Beach,Sea of Galilee
Dr Haim Cohen will lead the second season of an Archaeological Expedition to excavate the Biblical village of the "Gedarenes"  (Matthew  8:28) at Kursi Beach on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. 


 1st November 2016 - 
 15th December 2016

This is the village where Jesus delivered a man possessed by demons, and then drove the demons into a herd of pigs. 

We urgently need Volunteers and Donations. 

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The sensational find from the 2015 season - a marble slab with an inscription in Aramaic and Hebrew (circa first - fourth century)

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Welcome!

The Archive may have been hidden, by priests, in caves in the Judean Desert cliff area.The Origins Discovery Project is a non-profit-making organisation set up to find the lost archive of the Jewish Second Temple, believed to contain title deeds to land, correspondence and records relating to the Second Temple period of Jewish history. The Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE. 

This project manages extreme archaeological expeditions to discover the truth concerning the lost archive. Haim Cohen is the leader of The Origins Discovery project, and is a qualified archaeologist with Haifa University , Israel.
The 'Sealed Cave' may have been sealed for thousands of years. We will be the first to discover its secrets. 

Coin found in the cave showing grape vine leaf and chalice with the words: year 2 for the liberation of Zion on one side, and Holy Jerusalem, on the other - circa 67CE

The interior of the Mikveh cave

Cohen has surveyed the area with archaeological teams, and led one survey expedition in 2003, and another in 2007 when a sealed cave was discovered. He led a dig in 2003 and another in  2006, which are documented here. More expeditions are planned, and Cohen is seeking both donations and volunteers to aid him to progress the search for these critical Jewish artefacts and scrolls. At present no government funding is available for this type of project, and the site is at risk of contamination by treasure-seekers while it remains incompletely explored.

So far, many scientific indicators have been uncovered which point to the fact that there was priestly activity in the caves. A leather binder, traditionally used to enclose scrolls has been found. A pool at the entrance to one of the caves has been proved to be a Mikveh or ritual cleansing vessel, which would have been used by priests or scribes prior to touching sacred objects such as scrolls.
In the last three years Cohen completed his Phd with Haifa University.

THESE CAVES CONTAIN VITAL INFORMATION, OF INTEREST TO MANY RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR GROUPS,
AND SHOULD BE FULLY EXPLORED URGENTLY


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Middle Bronze Age IIB rural settlements in the eastern valleys and desert frontier of the Samaria hill country

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