Ancient Israel

Tell Bethsaida

From the University of Nebraska at Omaha, a report of field school investigations at what was probably a fortified city known as Zer in the Hebrew Bible....

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Ashkelon

From David Schloen at Harvard, and ABZU and the Oriental Institute, discussion of the recent discoveries at this Canaanite, Philistine, and Phoenician occupation....

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Giv'ot Reved

A Roman period pastoral camp, in the Negev Desert, an abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology....

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Sepphoris

Excavation report run by the University of Florida...

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Bethsaida

Recent investigations description from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem....

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ASHKELON EXCAVATIONS

Professor Lawrence E. Stager Harvard University Ashkelon Excavations The Semitic Museum...

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Grar

Chalcolithic site, among the earliest versions of pastoralist villages of the Near Eastern fellahin, or peasants; an abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology....

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Zippori

Information on the 1998 field season run by Hebrew University....

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Tel Dan

At a site in northern Israel, several stone fragments were found with highly controversial Aramaic inscriptions. Extensive archeological digs in the area have uncovered much of this ancient city along with the mizbayach that once stood here. Many of the finds can be seen in a museum nearby....

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Tel Tanninim

A field school run by Rutgers University on this site, occupied during the Persian, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine and Crusader eras....

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