Mark Twain’s journey through “The Holy Land”, as described in his book “The Innocents Abroad” , tells of his disenchantment with the Biblical tales he grew up with. This was not the land of “milk and honey” he might have expected. He did not hear the cooing of the turtledove. The land Twain experienced was geographically the same location but the landscape was not as found in those tales. By the same token, the land Twain visited is not what we find there today. It is an ancient land that had been occupied by Neolithic peoples.