🇮🇱 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).
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Tell Jemmeh (Tel Gamma)
Late Bronze – Persian (1400–400 BCE) · Philistine–Assyrian
Late Bronze – Persian (1400–400 BCE) tell of Philistine–Assyrian in Southern District, Besor River (c.1400 BCE).
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Ashdod (Tel Ashdod / Isdud)
Late Bronze – Iron Age (1700–600 BCE) · Philistine–Israelite
Late Bronze – Iron Age (1700–600 BCE) tell of Philistine–Israelite in Southern District, Philistine Plain (c.1700 BCE).
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Tell Beit Mirsim (Tell Beit Mirsin)
Early Bronze – Iron Age (3000–600 BCE) · Biblical Debir
Early Bronze – Iron Age (3000–600 BCE) tell of Biblical Debir in Southern District, Hebron Hills (c.3000 BCE).
🇮🇱 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
Halutza — Elusa Western Quarter
Nabataean to Byzantine (300 BCE–636 CE) · Nabataean (Elusa/Elusates)
Halutza — Elusa Western Quarter in Southern District, Israel is a Nabataean to Byzantine (300 BCE–636 CE) ancient-city attributed to Nabataean (Elusa/Elusates).
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Yotvata Ein Ghadyan — Spice Road Caravanserai
Nabataean to Roman (100 BCE–300 CE) · Nabataean (Aretas)
Yotvata Ein Ghadyan — Spice Road Caravanserai in Southern District, Israel is a Nabataean to Roman (100 BCE–300 CE) ancient-city attributed to Nabataean (Aretas).
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Lachish — Shefela
Bronze to Iron Age (1800–586 BCE) · Canaanite/Judahite
Tel Lachish — Shefela in Southern District, Shefela, Israel is a Bronze to Iron Age (1800–586 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite/Judahite culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Avdat Highland Annex — Negev Nabataean Town Extension
Nabataean to Byzantine (300 BCE–600 CE) · Nabataean (Aretas)
Avdat Highland Annex — Negev Nabataean Town Extension in Southern District, Israel is a Nabataean to Byzantine (300 BCE–600 CE) ancient-city attributed to Nabataean (Aretas).
🇮🇱 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 Beersheba — Biblical Negev
Iron Age (1200–700 BCE) · Israelite (Judah)
Tel Beersheba — Biblical Negev in Southern District, Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200–700 BCE) tell attributed to Israelite (Judah) culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Masada — Desert Fortress of Herod
Hasmonean to Roman (2nd c. BCE–73 CE; Herodian peak) · Hasmonean Jewish → Herodian (Idumaean-Jewish client of Rome) → Sicarii → Roman legion → Byzantine monks
Herod's 440 m mesa fortress over Dead Sea — hanging palaces, desert cisterns and preserved Roman siege ramp.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Ashkelon – Submerged Canaanite–Philistine Anchorage and Dog-Harbour
Early Bronze to Crusader (c. 3500 BCE – 1270 CE) · Canaanite / Philistine / Phoenician / Hellenistic / Roman / Crusader
Philistine pentapolis roadsteads – anchor fields and rubble dog-leg breakwater 2–4 m offshore of Ashkelon tell.
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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
Gath (Tell es-Safi) – Philistine Capital Harbour Inland Port
Early Bronze to Judahite (c. 3000 – 600 BCE) · Canaanite / Philistine / Judahite / Assyrian
Philistine Goliath capital – Elah canal port 2 km north silted at –1 m – Philistine Bichrome harbour mud.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Ashkelon
Early Bronze to Crusader 1191 CE · Canaanite → Philistine → Phoenician → Roman
Five-period tells (Canaanite vaulted mudbrick gate — oldest arch in the world c.1850 BCE, 4 m high; Philistine emporium of titans with 15,000 sq m market; Phoenician Tyrian-purple, Greek, Roman,…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Lachish
Early Bronze to Babylonian destruction 587 BCE · Canaanite → Israelite/Judahite
Major Canaanite city-state and Judahite fortress second only to Jerusalem (Joshua, Hezekiah, Sennacherib's 701 BCE reliefs at British Museum).
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Tel Burna
EB to Iron Age (c.3000–600 BCE; peak Canaanite–Philistine 1600–600) · Canaanite → Philistine? → Judah (Shephelah)
Tel Burna is Shephelah unfortified town (maybe Libnah?) excavated by Itzhaq Shai/Ariel University since 2009; LB courtyard palace, Iron Judahite silos and culti...
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Lachish
Neolithic to Persian (c.5000–400 BCE; peak Judah fortress 900–586 BCE) · Canaanite → Judahite fortress → Assyrian → Persian
Tel Lachish is the great Judahite fortress-city (second after Jerusalem), famed for 701 BCE Sennacherib siege ramp — Assyrian reliefs at Nineveh show Lachish ba...
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Tel Dor (Dora) – Phoenician–Herodian Harbour Submerged
Middle Bronze to Byzantine (c. 2000 BCE – 640 CE) · Canaanite / Sikil Sea Peoples / Phoenician / Hellenistic / Herodian / Roman
Lagoon harbour city behind three islets – Phoenician quay and slipways at –0.5 to –3 m in Dor lagoon.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Akko (Acre) – Ptolemais Submerged Crusader Harbour
Middle Bronze to Ottoman (c. 2000 BCE – 1917 CE) · Canaanite / Phoenician / Hellenistic / Roman / Crusader / Ottoman
Crusader capital's double harbour – Hellenistic mole 100 m at –3 m and Tower of Flies islet mole submerged.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Apollonia–Arsuf – Crusader Harbour Submerged Quays
Persian to Crusader (c. 530 BCE – 1265 CE) · Phoenician / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman / Crusader
Clifftop Crusader port whose Roman quay and kurkar mole now lie 1–3 m down along Apollonia cliffs.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Acre, Israel
Acre ( AH-kər, AY-kər), known in Hebrew as Akko (Hebrew: עַכּוֹ, ʻAkkō, IPA: [ˈako]) and in Arabic as Akka (Arabic: عكّا, ʻAkkā, IPA: [ˈʕak.ka]), is a city in the coastal plain region of the Northern…