🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Ashdod
Ashdod (Hebrew: אַשְׁדּוֹד, romanized: ʾašdōḏ, pronounced [ʔaʃˈdod]; Arabic: أسدود, romanized: ʾasdūd, pronounced [ʔasˈduːd], or إسدود, ʾisdūd [ʔɪsˈduːd]; Philistine: 𐤀𐤔𐤃𐤃, romanized: *ʾašdūd)…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Bayt Jibrin
Bayt Jibrin or Beit Jibrin (Arabic: بيت جبرين lit. 'House of the Powerful') was an Arab village in the Hebron Subdistrict of British Mandatory Palestine, in what is today the State of Israel, which…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Beit She'arim (Roman-era Jewish village)
Beit She'arim (Hebrew: בית שערים; Imperial Aramaic: בית שריי / Bet Sharei), also Besara (Greek: Βήσαρα), was a Jewish village located in the southwestern hills of the Lower Galilee, during the Roman…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Chorazin
Chorazin (Greek: Χοραζίν; also Chorazain) or Korazim (Hebrew: כורזים) was an ancient village in the Roman and Byzantine periods, best known from the Christian Gospels.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Khirbat Umm Burj
Khirbat Umm Burj was a Palestinian Arab village in the Hebron Subdistrict, sometimes designated in modern maps as Burgin. Its ruins are today located within the borders of Israel.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Sha'ar Hagolan
Pottery Neolithic / Yarmoukian · Yarmoukian (Levantine Pottery Neolithic)
Type-site of the Yarmoukian culture (6400–5800 BCE), the first Pottery Neolithic culture of the southern Levant, on the Yarmouk River.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Abu Zurayq
Abu Zurayq or Abu Zureiq (Arabic أبو زريق) is a cluster of archaeological sites at a well-watered spot at the western edge of the Jezreel Valley and its transition to the Menashe Heights, next to…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Baysamun
Baysamun or Beisamoun (Arabic: بيسمون, Beisamûn) was a small Palestinian Arab village, located 16.5 kilometers (10.3 mi) in the marshy Hula Valley northeast of Safad.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Kharruba
Kharruba was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, near Modi'in. It was located 8 km east of Ramla. It was depopulated on July 12, 1948, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Yarmuth (Yarmut)
Early Bronze Age II–III (c.3000–2350 BCE) with MB II and Iron I–II reuse · EBA III Canaanite urban (Proto-Canaanite) — Jordan Valley city-state network
16 ha EBA III walled palace-city (2700–2350 BCE) with Palace B2 (6000 m²) — largest EBA town in Israel (Miroschedji).
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Miqne (Ekron)
Early Bronze through Iron Age II; EBA, LB Canaanite, Iron I–II Philistine, Assyrian 7th c. · LB Canaanite → Sea Peoples Philistine → Ekronite (Philistine) kingdom → Neo-Assyrian vassal
Ekron — Philistine pentapolis capital with 115-press oil industry and Achish inscription (Iron I–II, 1200–603 BCE).
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Ein Gev I Natufian Base Camp
Natufian · Natufian Galilee
Ein Gev I Natufian Base Camp at Galilee, Sea of Galilee, Israel is a Natufian ancient village of the Natufian Galilee tradition, built c. 12000 BCE for natufian lakeside round huts basalt mortars.
🇮🇱 Israel · Cave
Nahal Oren Cave Terrace Carmel
Natufian to PPN · Mount Carmel Natufian
Nahal Oren Cave Terrace Carmel at Mount Carmel, Israel is a Natufian to PPN cave of the Mount Carmel Natufian tradition, built c. 13000 BCE for cave and terrace natufian burials ppna village.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Yiftahel PPNB Plaster Village
PPNB · Galilee PPNB
Yiftahel PPNB Plaster Village at Galilee, Yiftahel, Israel is a PPNB ancient village of the Galilee PPNB tradition, built c. 8000 BCE for ppnb village mega-plaster lime kiln.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Rampart Buried Gate West — Coastal Plain (Tel Aviv)
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Medieval
Rampart Buried Gate West in Coastal Plain, Israel is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) ancient village attributed to Medieval culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Beisamoun PPNB Skulls House
PPNB · PPNB Galilee
Beisamoun PPNB Skulls House at Hula Valley, Beisamoun, Israel is a PPNB ancient village of the PPNB Galilee tradition, built c. 8000 BCE for ppnb village 7 plastered skulls.
🇮🇱 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 village
Horvat Galil Late Natufian Hamlet
Late Natufian · Galilean Natufian
Horvat Galil Late Natufian Hamlet at Upper Galilee, Israel is a Late Natufian ancient village of the Galilean Natufian tradition, built c.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Rosh Horesha Natufian Negev Camp
Natufian · Negev Natufian
Rosh Horesha Natufian Negev Camp at Negev, Rosh Horesha, Israel is a Natufian ancient village of the Negev Natufian tradition, built c. 12000 BCE for highland natufian harpoons bedrock mortars.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Village of Farm Sproxton
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Village of Farm Sproxton in Negev, Israel is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Dor
Middle Bronze Age through Crusader (c.2000 BCE–640 CE); MB Canaanite → Phoenician (Siky) → Assyrian province → Persian–Hellenistic Phoenician Dor · MB Canaanite → Iron I Siky/Phoenician → Phoenician (Tyre) → Perso-Phoenician province → Hellenistic
Phoenician purple-dye port (c.2000 BCE–640 CE) — 20 ha Carmel headland tell with Iron I Wenamun harbour and mole (Stern).