That deeper digging takes courage and commitment.
The goal is that the digging take place without any noticeable disturbance to anyone on the surface, and the dig site will be continually tested to make sure the surface level never shifts while it's in progress.
"People picture dinosaur digging taking place in the hot summer weather in some desert-y situation," Druckenmiller said.
The cellar dig took three weeks, and we are still cataloging the artifacts.
A first dig took place there in 2008, followed by the 2010 dig in a sand and gravel quarry which produced the latest discovery.
Before the war, archaeological digs took place across the country and local labourers like Tarek were often employed at the sites.
Although our dig took place on a mild, springlike day, the busiest time of year for archaeological digs is summer, when the temperature in Israel can easily reach into the 90's.
Meanwhile, the bottom of the sculpture, which had already been removed before the dig took place, turned up in 1970 in the hands of a dealer in Amman, who sold it to the Jordan Archaeological Museum.
In a statement explaining his absence, Russell Brand alluded to the film's difficult gestation – it was instigated seven years ago and saw half a dozen directors let go before Ondi Timoner, the director of the great music documentary Dig!, took the reins.
Mr Boucher said that although the dig took place between 2009 and 2011, it had taken some time to analyse the finds.
The dig took place in the spring of 2003.
