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A Friday in 700 BCE Jerusalem

What did ordinary people actually do all day in biblical Jerusalem? This episode spends a Friday in the seventh century BCE, late First Temple period, in the House of Ahiel — the most complete ordinary home excavated from the city that fell to Babylon in 586 BCE. Grounded in what archaeologists actually pulled out of the ground, it reconstructs the morning grinding of grain, the tannur oven and its stew, the smells of a narrow street, and the honest, unglamorous details that rarely make it into the story — including the parasite eggs recovered from a limestone toilet seat. Along the way: the…

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