The 1971 Excavation of King Solomon's Gate
was the first archaeological proof of a biblical passage in history...

It proved the existence of the real King Solomon.

The History Channels documentary "Digging for the Truth" introduction with Daniel Pride, the youngest of the King Solomons Gate excavators shown on the right side	World-renown archaeologist Dr William Dever, director of the 1971 excavation with excavator Daniel Pride at the Solomonic Gate at Tel Gezer Israel during the 2007 excavations..

Until the summer of 1971 archaeology had failed to conclusively prove the historical basis of the Bible. The walls of Jericho had fallen from grace, the dream of Biblical Archaeologist William Foxwell Albright was still just a theory. That summer Yigael Yadin would complete the first proof of a Biblical Passage by finding the city gate of Gezer which King Solomon built circa 960 BC, and the Bible described in 1 Kings 9:15

"Now this is the way King Solomon conscripted the Labor Corps to build the house of the Lord, his house, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer"

The Holy Bible 1 Kings 9:15

The Solomonic Gate at Gezer was the third Solomonic Gate discovered. Combined with the discoveries of the Solomonic Gates at Megiddo in the 1930's and Hazor in the 1950's, the Gezer Gate completed the first proof of a biblical passage in history with rocks on the ground. It was the long sought after historical nexus where scientific theory finally validated Biblical History.

"Everything depends on one verse in the Bible,... and that is... 1 Kings 9:15" Archaeologist Israel Finkelstein Director of Excavations at Megiddo

Life after the excavation changed immediately and dramatically for the youngest of the Gezer excavators,... the irreverent "party animal" teenager who knew nothing of the Bible, and everything about having a good time. It became pervaded by a long series of phenomenal circumstances and bizarre coincidences spanning decades. It is a long list of often independently documented events,... who's intertwining coincidental phenomena defy probability, and challenge belief. They can only be called unusual on a Biblical Scale... especially in combination. Common Themes like Solomon, Justice, Corruption, Promiscuity, Murder, Numerology, Word plays, and numerous obvious biblical passage parallels and replays, repeat and inter-relate throughout.

The events are described and documented herein.

The Aftermath: Stories from a Lifetime
Best Read in Top-down order

The Money Changer of Ayasofya
Habemus Papam
Herod's Slaughter of the Innocent at Christmas
The Valley of the Shadow of Death
Am I my Brothers Keeper
Reading the First Book of Kings
Samson
Dr Hellerstedt and the Killing Fields
The Exodus of the Hmong
Nathan R note
Nathan R Note Announced
Nathan the Prophet
Beheading of the Baptist
What's in a Name ?
Christ and the Twelve Apostles
The Burning Bush
The Road to Damascus
Solomon's Women
Elliot's Solution
The Call
The Two Noahs
Michael's Supertanker
The Roar of the Beast
The Face of God
Camping Lionetta
Mile High Goodbye
Solomonic Artifacts
The Party
The Chi-Rho and the Thumbs up
The NYPD and the Firestick
Manifesto Night
Don and the Bikers
The Rose
Cain
Originating Event
The Strangeness of it All
Full Bio
Why Malvo

Photos taken during Hazor 2003 Excavations of Dan Pride with archaeologist Dr. Amnon Ben-Tor (featured in "Digging for the Truth") at the Solomonic Gate at Hazor. Amnon was a student under Yigael Yadin and was periodically present during the Solomonic Gate excavation at Tel Gezer in 1971,... and at many of the late night parties that summer on the Tel. He now runs excavations at the Biblical site... Hazor, and is the current Yigael Yadin professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Amihai Mazar ends the debate with Carbon 14 at Tel Rehov

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Footnote - Additional Events yet to be written down: John Moulton's Akron Adventure, R Bud Dwyer's Allegheny Reporter, Solomon's Lamp, Damocles and Diane at Kalaelock, Dresher on a Pinball Machine, Joans Ankle, Spirit in the Sunroof, Crows of the Eve, Treadmill Company, Taj Mahal Snapshot, Natural Born loose in Bangkok, Rings in the Rafters, Mishawaka Tattooed Knuckles, The Naked Truth, The Grave of Tel Gezer, Squeezing with Rob and TL, Two Lights Dancing on the reflecting pool, Singles Weekend at the Holocaust Survivors reunion, Daddy Warbucks, Carrying the Chair, Biblical Passages replay, Crow commentary, The Day Johnny Cash Died, Spring 1954(?) UN Gen Assembly "walk-on debut" trailing rope and harness. Also, It increasingly appears that there is an entire second tier of signs and marks just beyond my view that happen to many people on the periphery of these events which I periodically hear about but have no way of documenting at present.

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