The 2010 Folio about the 2009 excavations

     A special Folio, i.e., a large format book printed on special paper and with cloth binding, is produced after each season of excavations. Each one interprets, in a somewhat poetic mood at times, the strong impressions one retains, at the end of the season, of what are the most significant results. They define each specific season's profile.
     The Folios are not in the nature of a true report, and they may venture more freely in the territory of hypotheses and conjectures. But they render the slight intoxication one feels at the end of a season's work... It is in this light that they should be seen and enjoyed.
     The 2009 Folio, was entitled The Floodwaters of Urkesh, and a special edition was produced for Gulfsands, embossed with the Exploration Fund's logo. It is available in English, Arabic and Italian.
     The 2010 Folio is currently in preparation, and is entitled The Sleeping Giant. It is devoted especially to the discovery of the massive fourth millennium Temple Terrace hiding ("sleeping") immediately below its third millennium successor...