🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tell el-Farah North Sector 622
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 622 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tell el-Farah North Sector 635
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 635 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
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Tell el-Farah North Sector 645
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 645 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
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Tell el-Farah North Sector 670
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 670 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
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Tell el-Farah North Sector 699
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 699 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
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Tell el-Farah North Sector 754
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 754 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
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Tell el-Farah North Sector 794
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 794 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
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Tell el-Farah North Sector 801
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 801 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
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Tell el-Farah North Sector 863
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 863 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
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Tell el-Farah North Sector 942
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 942 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tell el-Farah North Sector 70
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 70 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
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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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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).
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Tel Rehov (Rehov)
Late Bronze Age through Iron Age II (c.1550–732 BCE); LB Canaanite, Iron I–II Israelite/Aramaean, Assyrian · LB Canaanite (Rehov/Sharuhen?) → Iron I Israelite → Israelite–Aramaean contested city
Beth Shean Valley’s largest mound (10 ha) with 10th-c. apiary (30 hives) and Iron I–II Rehov — Shoshenq anchor (1200–732 BCE).
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Tel Azekah
Early Bronze through Iron Age and Byzantine (c.3500 BCE–600 CE); LB–Iron I–II Judahite fortress 8th–6th c. BCE · EBA–LB Canaanite → Judahite fortress (Hezekiah–Zedekiah) → Babylonian destruction → Persian–Byzantine
Judahite Shfela fortress (18 ha) with Sennacherib 701 BCE and 588 BCE Babylonian destructions — Lachish letter Azekah (Iron II).
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Tel Beersheba
Chalcolithic to Byzantine (peak Iron I–II, 1200–701 BCE) · Chalcolithic well-diggers → Canaanite → Israelite/Judahite → Assyrian → Byzantine
UNESCO biblical frontier tell with four-room houses and Israel's earliest engineered water-tunnel.
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Tel Arad
Early Bronze II to Iron II / Persian (c.3000–400 BCE; EB peak 2950–2650, Iron 1000–587) · EB Canaanite → absent MB → Israelite Judahite → Babylonian era → Persian
Double-stacked tell: 2950 BCE walled EB city plus Iron Age Judahite fortress-temple twin of Jerusalem.
🇮🇱 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 city
Hazor
Early Bronze to Hellenistic · Canaanite → Israelite → Assyrian
Largest Canaanite and Israelite tell in Israel (100 ha total: 12 ha upper acropolis + 70 ha lower city) — 'head of all those kingdoms' (Joshua 11:10) — with Middle Bronze earthen ramparts, Late…
🇮🇱 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.
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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 · 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).
🇮🇱 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,…
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Tel Yavne
MB to Crusader (c.2000 BCE–1260 CE; peak Philistine–Judah–Sanhedrin 1200 BCE–70 CE) · Canaanite → Philistine → Judahite → Hellenistic → Roman (Sanhedrin 70–135 CE) → Crusader
Tel Yavne (biblical Jabneel, Philistine Jamnia) is famed as the seat of the Sanhedrin after 70 CE — Yochanan ben Zakkai's Yavne academy that reconstituted Judai...