Just as some history is worth revisiting several millennia after the fact, so too some news stories are worth comment several weeks in abeyance.

So it is with the death May 25 at age 64 of one of the most fascinating and successful archaeologists of our lifetimes, namely the Israeli excavationist Eilat Mazar. It was Mazar who in 2005 discovered, on a ridge running southward from the Temple Mount, what is almost certainly the palace or fortress of the biblical King David, along with later discoveries of other treasures that essentially confirm the veracity of some Old Testament accounts.