Images The site of Saint Simeon

The excavations in Saint Simeon were mainly done by French and German archaeological missions. Archaeologist Tchalenko distinguished three types of ruins: the comprehensive blocks which were numbered and kept in a segregated area, the half-conserved blocks which had an ambiguous status and which were not automatically conserved, and the illegible blocks that were taken away from the esplanade. Jean-Pierre Sodini and his team took over from 1980. The only objects found in the site were ceramics, among which eulogies, small objects for blessing which look like small clay balls engraved with small seals.