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Excavation ongoing archaeological wonders in Israel · Mysteria

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Excavation ongoing archaeological wonders in Israel

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🇮🇱 Israel · Earthwork

Negev Desert Kites – Har Harif & Avdat

PPNB to Early Bronze Age · Levantine Neolithic pastoral-hunters

100 Negev kites on desert plateau—30-cm walls funneling gazelle into live-capture pens (7000–3000 BCE).

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🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder

Timna Valley Copper Mines

Chalcolithic to Iron Age (~4500 BCE – 800 BCE; peak New Kingdom Egyptian 14th–12th century BCE) · Egyptian New Kingdom, Midianite/Edomite and early Arabah nomadic

Three-sided sandstone valley north of Eilat where 10,000 shafts and 1.5 million tonnes of slag mark one of the world's earliest industrial landscapes.

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🇮🇱 Israel · Tell

Fortress Citadel Mideast 41 — Israel Region 5

Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Mideast-Tell

Fortress Citadel Mideast 41 — Israel Region 5 in Israel Region 5, Israel is a Neolithic tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.