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Published: December 18, 2008
Edmond students dig their way to the find ‘of a lifetime’
BY JOHN A. WILLIAMS
EDMOND — It sounds like something out of a movie. Archaeologists discover a tunnel in Israel they believe dates to the time of King David , the 10th century B.C.

But the story is not fiction. Five students from Herbert W. Armstrong College in Edmond spent several months in Jerusalem digging, photographing and documenting it.

Jeremy Cocomise said he signed up for the dig because he thought it would...

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