The conclusion to this book returns to the question as to why those in antiquity did not dig more extensively to learn about those who lived before and why we do. It argues that ruins are now about differences that appear in history, and to excavate is to better understand all that separates one era from the next, and us from those who came before. But for the biblical writers ruins were objects that overcame temporal distance and offered continuity in lived experienced. The temporalities of remembrance, presence, and anticipation are all centered on this abiding sense that past experiences preserved in material form bore directly on current ones.