Ancient and mysterious places in Israel

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🇮🇱 Israel · Buried city

Loess Buried Camp East — Coastal Plain (Tel Aviv)

Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age

Loess Buried Camp East in Coastal Plain, Israel is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Bronze Age culture.

🇮🇱 Israel · Tell

Tel Harod — Neolithic and Bronze Enclosures

Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Iron Age (8300 BCE–600 BCE) · Neolithic / Canaanite

Tel Harod — Neolithic and Bronze Enclosures in Jezreel Valley, Israel is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Iron Age (8300 BCE–600 BCE) tell attributed to Neolithic / Canaanite.

🇮🇱 Israel · Cave

Maresha — Bell Cave Hellenistic Quarry City

Hellenistic (3rd–1st c. BCE) + earlier Iron Edomite Marissa · Idumean / Hellenistic Phoenician polis

Beit Guvrin park excavated by Peters & Thiersch 1902, bell caves industrial 500+, Apollophanes Tomb frescoed.

🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder

Jubb Yussef (Joseph's Well)

Jubb Yussef (Arabic: جُبّ يُوسُف, Hebrew: גוב יוסף), also known as "Joseph's Well" in English, is an archaeological site in Ramat Korazim in Galilee, Israel.

🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city

Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov

Lower Palaeolithic Acheulean (c.780 ka) · Acheulean Homo erectus/heidelbergensis

Acheulean lakeside camp (c.780,000 BCE) on the paleo-Hula shore, earliest habitations with controlled fire. Excavated by...

🇮🇱 Israel · Temple complex

Oboda Theatre Annex — Avdat North

Nabataean–Roman (50 CE theatre of Aretas IV?) · Nabataean (Obodas god-king)

Oboda Theatre Annex — Avdat North in Southern District, Israel is a Nabataean–Roman (50 CE theatre of Aretas IV?) temple-complex attributed to Nabataean (Obodas god-king).

🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village

Beisamoun — Galilee PPNB Village

Pre-Pottery Neolithic B–C (8200–6400 BCE) · PPNB (Beisamounian)

Beisamoun — Galilee PPNB Village in Northern District, Israel is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B–C (8200–6400 BCE) ancient-village attributed to PPNB (Beisamounian).

🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city

Horvat Qitmit

Iron IIB–C (c.700–600 BCE) · Edomite (with Judean/ Arabian influence)

Iron II Edomite open-air shrine (c.700–600 BCE) on a hilltop in the Negev, excavated by Itzhaq Beit-Arieh. Single-phase...

🇮🇱 Israel · Tell

Tel Gezer — Shefela

Canaanite to Iron Age (3500–500 BCE) · Canaanite

Tel Gezer — Shefela in Central District, Shefela, Israel is a Canaanite to Iron Age (3500–500 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite culture.

🇮🇱 Israel · Tell

Tell es-Safi — Gath Philistine Acropolis

Early Bronze to Crusader; Philistine peak 1170–830 BCE · Philistine (Gath of Goliath)

Tell es-Safi excavated by Maeir 1996–, Philistine inscription Goliath sherd and Hazael siege system.

🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city

Raqefet Cave

Late Natufian (c.15000–11800 BCE) · Natufian

Late Natufian burial cave (c.15000–11800 BCE) on Mount Carmel, excavated by Dani Nadel. Dense Natufian cemetery with dec...

🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site

Atlit-Yam

PPNB (6900–6300 BCE) · PPNB Neolithic

Pre-Pottery Neolithic B mega-village (6900–6300 BCE) submerged 300–400 m offshore after post-glacial sea rise, with stone wall 150 m, paved well 5.5 m deep (earliest seawall and well), megalithic…

🇮🇱 Israel · Tell