In July 2012, new archaelogical campaign in Western Shephelah in Israel at the ancient site of Tel Azekah has been opened. The excavations are conducted by prestigious international consortium of universities among which also Charles University of Prague and there specifically The Centre for Biblical Studies of the Czech Academy of Sciences are involved. The site under scrutiny was populated throughout many period including Late Bronze, Iron Age and presumably also the Persian or the Hasmonaean time. Though already excavated at the end of 19th century, present campaign aims to raise new data from the site with support of latter-day technologies so that the complex picture of its abudant history can be elaborated., Filip Čapek., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
Professor Bedřich Hrozný (*May 6, 1879, Lysá na Labem - †December 12, 1952 Prague) is founder of Hittitology. He served for many years as Rector of Charles Univerzity in Prague and he deciphered the Hitttie cuneiform language. He is mostly known as and Old Oriental philologist, but he considered himself to be a historian. Through Hittitology, he unraveled history of a significant ancient empire. Throughout 1924 and 1925, Hrozný undertook the first Czechoslovakian archaelogical research in the Orient – in Syria and Turkey. The first excavation took place on April 4th, 1924 at the mound of Shech Sa´ad near Damascus. In northern Syria, he was also engaged in searching for new archaelogical sites – many times, he even risked his life. Further archaelogical excavations in Syria began on October 17th, 1924 at the moundof Tell Erfad situated southward from the city of Aleppo. Bedřich Hrozný was in his archaelogical works successful and he was allowed to keep and carry away from Syria a part of found artefacts. Nevertheles, he also put aside some of the archaelogical findings without the knowledge of the Syrian authorities. The findings were sent to Beirut, from where, they were trasported as a diplomatic consignment through the Italian city of Trieste to Prague. Many archaelogists from other countries did it the same way, so we shouldn´t look at Hrozný down our noses for this, as he did not do it for himself, but for the science., René Kopecký., and Obsahuje seznam literatury