Well, welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church history.

The last couple weeks we were together, we were talking about that wonderful discovery of the prayer hall at McGito.

And it was found, of course, in what is called Telmigito.

And that was a very significant, remains

a very significant archaeological site.

Well, this week I thought we would dig a little deeper into the dust and ancient stones

and talk about this field of archaeology itself.

So here we go.

Five things about archaeologists. First is the relationship to historians.

A simple way to put it is, historians love texts. They love to study texts, analyze texts, interpret text, debate texts, and present texts from the past to the present.

Archaeologists help give context to those texts.

Archaeologists work with what we call material culture.

That's the items used by everyday people doing everyday things,

lamps and jars and coins.

And of course, they're interested in buildings,

massive public buildings like stadiums or churches,

and also houses.

And they're trying to discover and interpret the physical remains of the past to reconstruct

the lives of these ancient people, whether it's in biblical times or the times of the ancient

church or even Reformation

era or even in the modern age, archaeologists are trying to reconstruct the past and bring it

forward. Where do archaeologists work? Our second thing, well, they work at a tell, and that's

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