Tell el-Mukayyar – The excavationsElisa's team had been ready for some time. They were waiting for her to start off the day's work.
The base camp was made up of a dozen or so tents in which the workers took shelter and slept at night. One lighter coloured tent at the external perimeter of the encampment served as a canteen. Two people were busy preparing food and handing it out. The largest, most central tent was used as a laboratory. Doctor Hunter’s workstation, decidedly Spartan, was inside it. It was made up of a small camping table that functioned as a desk, a canvas seat the colour of sand, which was used as an armchair, and two folding chairs for guests. On the desk there was a tiny red table lamp, a brown earthenware penholder, and her lucky charm: a carved wooden doll. She had fou
