A MUSEUM OF DAILy LIFE IN BIBLICAL TIMES LAgrange • georgia

The Explorations in
Antiquity Center
130 Gordon Commercial Drive • LaGrange, GA 30240
or P.O. Box 3900 • LaGrange, GA 30241
Phone: 706.885.0363 • Fax: 706.885.0364
[email protected]
www.explorationsinantiquity.net
Open: Tuesday - Saturday
10:00am - 6:00pm
a museum of daily life
in biblical times
Full Scale
Archaeological Replicas
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The Time Tunnel
Walk Through 2,000 Years
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Time tunnel
replica of an
early Christian
church. In
front of the
arched apse
one can see the
stone altar,
mosaics, and
baptistery
(on left).
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Replica of Roman
aqueduct found
near Capernaum.
The water
powers a wooden
waterwheel, which
turns an ancient
grinding stone to
make flour.
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Kid’s Dig Experience
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Directions to the Exploration Center
View of
kids having
fun making
discoveries
in the four
archaeological
trenches. After
the dig, they will
hold a “press
conference” and
announce their
“new discoveries”
to the world!
From I-85 exit 13: Turn north from the Interstate to the light with
FedEx on right and the BP station on the left. Turn left on Lukken Industrial
Drive. Turn right at the fourth light onto Gordon Commercial Drive, just
past the Callaway Airport. Center is the first building on the left.
From I-85 exit 18: Turn northeast on first road after exit (Hwy. 109)
through town. Pass the college on your right and the hospital on the left.
At the top of the next hill there is a light. Here Hwy 109 turns right. You
keep straight (now Hwy. 29) to the next light at Domino’s Pizza. Turn left
on Lukken Industrial Drive. Turn another left at the next light on Gordon
Commercial Drive. Center is the first building on the left.
lagrange • georgia
Full scale archaeological replicas
from antiquity • time tunnel
biblical meals • kid’s digs and activities
life of the shepherd • life of the
farmer • life of the village • multi-media
presentations • conferences
museum shop
Group visiting
replica of a
Jerusalem tomb
from 700-500
B.C. Our
museum guides
explain customs
and help ancient
texts come alive.
Archaeological Replica Exhibits
Life of the Shepherd
Archaeological Replicas
Life of the Village
Archaeological Replicas
Life of Shepherd Attractions: Desert oasis with flora and fauna,
Life of the Village Attractions: Stone quarry, hoisting
limestone rock cliff, sheepfolds, tent encampment, well, mangers, “Shepherd’s Bread”
experience, and ancient ancestral cemeteries.
The Purpose of the Museum:
equipment, Israelite and Canaanite altars, ancient house, courtyards, village gate,
judges chambers, fortification tower, storehouse, stable, water cisterns
Snow covered
view of our
four-room gate
house with
fortification
tower, above,
and stable/
storehouse in
the distance.
This desert
waterfall
descends a
limestone cliff
into pools
with papyrus
and bulrush
water plants.
Snow-covered
temporary
sheepfold
frames a goat
hair tent
encampment
in the distance.
Date-palm
tree on left and
permanent rock
sheepfold
on right.
Life of the Farmer
Archaeological Replicas
Night scene
from a
sound and
light show
with Roman
soldiers
under
the large
arched gate
entrance.
Life of the Farmer Attractions: Vineyard watch tower, grape presses,
olive orchard, oil presses, threshing floor and equipment, aqueduct water wheel and milling
area, and garden walks through the olive, cyprus, cedar, pomegranate, fig, and almond trees.
Three agricultural
terraces with farming
scenes from a museum
performance. A
vineyard is on the
top terrace, olive tree
harvest on the center,
and grape stomping
instillation on
the bottom.
A Non-Profit Organization:
A non-profit organization, the Explorations in Antiquity Center
is not related to any particular denominational organization. It is
important for our Christian board members and staff team serve
peoples of all faith traditions, as well as those of no particular
tradition, and to show a sensitivity and respect for those from
different traditions than their own. What unites us is an interest
in cultivating a curiosity for respecting the past and all it has to
offer to the present.
An Interactive, Experiential Museum:
The Biblical Meal Experience
Archaeological Recreation
Comfortable shadecovered walkways
cover archaeological
reconstructions of a
beam style oil press
in the foreground
and grape presses in
the distance.
The Explorations in Antiquity Center’s purpose is to transport
the visitor across the sea and through the ages to the earlier times
and places of the Judeo-Christian heritage in the Middle East.
The archaeological remains can help understand earlier periods
and rediscover the hopes and fears of peoples long ago. Our
museum can help the visitor find meaning from the amazing
archaeological discoveries from the biblical world.
Group enjoying a meal featuring the recipes, manners and customs of a First Century
meal in a room decorated as in the Herodian Period. Implications are discussed for the
meaning of the Last Supper during the Passover season.
Ancient reclining table known
as a triclinium, copied from one
discovered at Pompeii, covered
by the Mt. Vesuvius eruption
in 79 CE.
“An authentic 15 dish
Last Supper meal...a
world class experience.”
~Time Magazine,
March 17, 1989
The Explorations in Antiquity Center is an interactive living
museum of life in ancient times. Step back into time as you sit
in a real goat-hair tent like the nomadic shepherds have lived
in for thousands of years. See tombs like those in which the
prophets and Jesus were buried. Visit a village and city gate area
to see what life was like 3000-2000 years ago. Dine with the
ancients as you partake of a Passover Meal much like that which
Jesus ate at the Last Supper. Enter the Time Tunnel and learn
about the worship practices of pagans, Jews and Christians from
2000 BC to 500 AD by exploring replicas of excavated houses
of worship from Israel. These opportunities and so many more
await you at the Explorations in Antiquity Center!
Services and Programs of
the Explorations Center
Archaeological themed Walk Programs include:
life of the shepherd, farmer, village, parables, Psalm 23 walk,
biblical plants, or the Time Tunnel houses of worship
Special Programs for Kids & Youth: kid’s digs,
shepherd’s bread experience, biblical scavenger hunts, vacation
Bible school activities and youth Bedouin tent gathering
Special Lecture Series Subjects: Geography of the
Bible, Introduction to Biblical Imagery, Archaeology of the
Old and New Testament, Jesus in Galilee and Jerusalem,
Insights from the Dead Sea Scrolls, or The Israel/Arab Problem
Special Events: Sound and light shows, summer concerts,
meeting hall rental, weddings, birthdays and catered events.
All restorations have been supervised by James Fleming, Ed.D., who
presently serves on the Advisory Board of the Biblical Archaeology
Review and was formerly Professor of Archaeology and Biblical
Geography at the Ecumenical Institute for Advanced Theological
Studies and Lecturer at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.
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