ERIC H. CLINE

SMILE WHILE YOU WORK. The Middle Bronze Age site of Tel Kabri in northern Israel boasts the oldest and largest wine cellar found in the ancient Near East as well as a Canaanite palace decorated with Minoan-style floor and wall paintings. Here, volunteers Matthew Kerwin and Sydney Thatcher from The George Washington University scrape loose soil into buckets with square-bladed hoes called turias.