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Beings. they are probably the people who actually worked here, the very poor people who are seemingly finding a place to bury their family members. >> i really can't believe what i'm seeing. how old is that? >> well, it's probably around 1700 b.c. >> just jump down. if you can. >> yep. >> reporter: call it beginner's luck, but graduate student katherine davis made this rare find on her second dig. >> so we were excavating this room right here, and we saw in the wall of this room this bone sticking out. and then we saw the two arm bones. and then teeth. and actually in excellent shape. >> reall...

>> this is where the workers worked and also where they lived. because we have a temple over here but you also have to have things like bread making, beer making. but surprise is that this year we started to get a lot of human beings. they are probably the people who actually worked here, the very poor people who are seemingly finding a place to bury their family members. >> i really can't believe what i'm seeing. how old is that? >> well, it's probably around 1700 b.c. >> just jump down. if you can. >> yep. >> reporter: call it beginner's luck, but graduate student katherine davis made this r...

Unearth history every day. this is a burial site from nearly 4,000 years ago. so is that one skeleton? >> there are actual multiple skeletons here. >> and these massive jugs. that's remarkably intact. >> this is the last meal or meal for eternity for the dead person. >> megido was fought over by all the great empires of the world. very deep here. >> yes. and accumulation of layers. >> and each victor would build on top of their vanquished foe. providing an abundance of evidence from 1200 to 700 b.c. the turbulent period of king david and king solomon as well as their heirs. >> in these 500 yea...

Laboring in the summer heat, unearth history every day. this is a burial site from nearly 4,000 years ago. >> so is that one skeleton? >> there are actually multiple skeletons here. >> and these massive jugs. that's so remarkably intact, isn't it? >> yeah. this is the last meal, or the meal for eternity for the dead person. >> reporter: megido was fought over by all of the great empires of the region. the assyrians, the babylonians and the egyptians. >> yes. and also the amazing accumulation of layers. >> reporter: and each victor would build on top of their vanquished foe, providing finkelste...

Nearly 4,000 years ago. so is that one skeleton? >> there are actually multiple skeletons here. >> and these massive jugs. that's so remarkably intact, isn't it? >> this is the last meal or meal for eternity for the dead person. >> megiddo was fought over by all the great empires of the region. the syrians and babylonians and the egyptians. very deep here. >> yes. and accumulation of layers. >> and each victor would build on top of their vanquished foe, providing finklestein and his crew an abundance of evidence from 1200 to 700 b.c. the turbulent period of king david and king solomon as well ...