The find of the week was the second half of the first-century A.D. sewage system below the eastern portico of the Lower Agora, perfectly preserved over 27.7 meters. Not a fragment of the dark gray mortar that keeps ashlars and rubble sections together had fallen off, and the floor level was not covered by debris. The sewage system, seen from its eastern extremity toward its accidentally discovered entrance--the "light at the end of the tunnel" Another almost miraculous find this week was a small screw that keeps our digital camera attached to the frame on our kite. After the second crash this week, the screw was lost on the way back to our car in an area with high grasses (and of course the usual snakes) covering several hectares. Without much hope, Juan Willems (our doctor) and Dirk Menten (one of our guides) set out in the evening to find it and managed to do so in a mere ten minutes. The proverbial seeking of a needle in a haystack proved to be solvable! This tiny screw was found in the grass.

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