🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Ein Bokek
Ein Bokek (Hebrew: עֵין בּוֹקֵק; Arabic: عين بوقيق) is an Israeli seaside resort on the Dead Sea, near Neve Zohar. It is under the jurisdiction of the Tamar Regional Council in the Southern District.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Tell el-Far'ah (South)
Archaeological site in the northern Negev, Israel
🇮🇱 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 · Archaeological wonder
Bet Guvrin — Roman Amphitheatre in Subterranean Complex
Roman (2nd–3rd c. CE Eleutheropolis) · Roman/Byzantine Eleutheropolis
Beit Guvrin amphitheatre excavated by Kloner 1980s, only fully underground Roman arena in Israel.
🇮🇱 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).
🇮🇱 Israel · Earthwork
Negev Central Desert Kites - Mitzpe Ramon
Late Neolithic Timnian to Early Bronze, plus Nabataean · Negev Timnian hunter-herders; Nabataean farmers
11 flint desert kites (4100-2900 BCE) on Negev plateau rim above Ramon Crater, later reused by Nabataean wine-presses.
🇮🇱 Israel · Geoglyph
Wadi Arabah Desert Kite Cluster (Arava Rift Valley)
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze I · Arava Chalcolithic–EB pastoral-miners
Rift-floor kite cluster 18 m asl in the Arava north of Eilat: 11 V-shaped Negev-type traps.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Haluza (Elusa) Negev Kite Field (Haluza dunes fringe, Israel)
Early Bronze to Byzantine (EB II to Byzantine, 3300 BCE–600 CE) · Negev Early Bronze (Arad) to Nabatean–Byzantine
11 Haluza dune-fringe kites (3300 BCE–Byzantine reuse) with sinking circles — Negev farming adaptation.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Ein HaBesor
Ein HaBesor (Hebrew: עֵין הַבְּשׂוֹר, lit. 'Spring of the Besor') is a moshav in southern Israel.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park
Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park is a national park in the Judaean Foothills of central Israel, containing a large network of caves recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Ashkelon National Park
Ashkelon National Park (Hebrew: גן לאומי אשקלון, Arabic: متنزه قومي عسقلان) is an Israeli national park consisting of the ruins of ancient Ascalon and Palestinian village Al-Jura, situated along the…
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Cave of Horrors
Cave of Horrors ('Ma'arat Ha'eimim') or Cave of Horror (Hebrew: מערת האימה, lit. 'Me'arat Ha'Eima') is the nickname given to a refuge cave that archaeologists have catalogued as Nahal Hever Cave 8…
🇮🇱 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.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Horvat 'Anim
Horvat ʽAnim (Hebrew: חורבת ענים) or Khirbet Ghuwein al-Tahta (Arabic: خربة غويين التحتا, “Lower Ghuwein”) is a ruined hamlet and archaeological locality in the southern fringes of the Hebron Hills,…