Summer 2025 Excavation Season
6-Week and 3-Week Digs
Full Season: June 21 - August 2, 2025
Half Season 1: June 21 - July 12, 2025
Half Season 2: July 13 - August 2, 2025
Persons under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a legal guardian.
Participate as a Student or Volunteer
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Learn while you dig.
Spend your summer vacation volunteering on an archaeological dig and contributing to our academic research. Volunteers benefit from the same expert teaching and guidance as students.
“Tel Shimron offers a great opportunity to work hard, learn a lot, and to make new friends while doing so. Sign up, you won’t regret it!”
We’re all for being accommodating.
With volunteers ranging from ages 18 to 80, Tel Shimron can accommodate workers with varying degrees of experience and ability.
Do you have a food allergy or other dietary restriction? Let us know in advance, and we’ll do our best to accommodate your needs.
We hope to see you in 2025!
Past Seasons
Our Progress
Summer 2024: Sixth Field Season
We recovered a vast cache of rare cultic objects used some 3,800 years ago by the ancient Canaanites.
Summer 2023: Fifth Field Season
Our team of world-renowned experts unearthed a rare and exquisitely preserved vaulted passageway dating back 3,800 years.
Summer 2022: Fourth Field Season
We excavated in the Middle Bronze and Roman phases uncovering abundance whole pottery vessels, a grain mill and bread ovens, and a large but enigmatic structure. We expect to learn more in 2023.
Summer 2020: Third Field Season
Summer 2019: Second Field Season
Summer 2017: First Field Season
Summer 2016: Geophysical Survey
We conducted a site-wide reconnaissance survey using traditional pedestrian survey and ground-based geophysical methods in order to determine the general periodization of the site as well as the potential layout of any near sub-surface architecture. It serves as both an extension and re-evaluation of the 1982 survey of the Yuval Portugali and Avner Raban.
Most Tel Shimron staff were directing the final season of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon.