🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Keisan (Tell Keisan)
Middle Bronze – Persian (2000–300 BCE) · Canaanite–Phoenician–Persian
Middle Bronze – Persian (2000–300 BCE) tell of Canaanite–Phoenician–Persian in Northern District, Akko Plain (c.2000 BCE).
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tell el-Farah South (Tell el-Farah S)
Middle Bronze – Iron Age (2000–900 BCE) · Hyksos–Philistine
Middle Bronze – Iron Age (2000–900 BCE) tell of Hyksos–Philistine in Southern District, Negev Border (c.2000 BCE).
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Ekron (Tel Miqne) – Philistine Olive Oil Harbour City
Middle Bronze to Neo-Babylonian (c. 2000 – 603 BCE) · Canaanite / Philistine / Judahite / Assyrian / Babylonia
Philistine olive oil harbour industrial city – 115-press oil zone and Sorek canal basin 30 m at –1.5 m.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Arbel
Arbel (Hebrew: אַרְבֵּל) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located beside Mount Arbel next to the Sea of Galilee near Tiberias, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Aphek
EB to Ottoman (c.3500 BCE–1917 CE; peak Canaanite–Philistine–Herod 3000 BCE–74 CE) · Canaanite → Philistine → Israelite → Philistine → Hellenistic → Herodian (Antipatris)
Tel Aphek (Herodian Antipatris) guards the Yarkon springs — Via Maris bottleneck, famous as Philistine camp before Saul's defeat (1 Sam 4) and Herod's Antipatri...
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Nessana — Byzantine Church Annex Papyri
Nabataean–Byzantine (100 BCE–636 CE) papyri archive · Nabataean then Byzantine (Nessana)
Nessana — Byzantine Church Annex Papyri in Southern District, Israel is a Nabataean–Byzantine (100 BCE–636 CE) papyri archive ancient-city attributed to Nabataean then Byzantine (Nessana).
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Batash
MB to Iron Age (c.2000–600 BCE; peak Philistine Timnah c.1200–600) · Canaanite → Philistine (Timnah) → Judah
Tel Batash is biblical Timnah in Sorek Valley — Samson's Timnah (Judges 14) and Philistine border town between Ekron and Gezer. Mazar/Kelm 1977–89 revealed MB g...
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Mampsis — Mamshit Eastern Quarter
Nabataean to Byzantine (100 BCE–600 CE) · Nabataean
Mampsis — Mamshit Eastern Quarter in Southern District, Israel is a Nabataean to Byzantine (100 BCE–600 CE) ancient-city attributed to Nabataean.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Adullam
Adullam (Hebrew: עֲדֻלָּם, romanized: ʿĂḏullām, Koine Greek: Οδολλάμ) is an ancient ruin once numbered among the thirty-six cities of Canaan whose kings "Joshua and the children of Israel smote"…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Horvat 'Ethri
Horvat 'Ethri (Hebrew: חורבת עתרי, lit. 'Ruin of Ethri'; also spelled Hurvat Itri, Ethri, Atari), or Umm Suweid (Arabic for "mother of the buckthorns"), is an archaeological site situated in the…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Khirbet Qeiyafa Shaaraim
Iron Age IIA · Judahite / Early Israel
Khirbet Qeiyafa Shaaraim at Judean Lowlands, Israel is a Iron Age IIA ancient city of the Judahite / Early Israel tradition, built c. 1020 BCE for two-gated casemate city shaaraim.