🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Abu Gosh
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Pottery Neolithic (7600–5500 BCE) · Southern Levant PPNB → Yarmoukian (Pottery Neolithic)
Judean Hills PPNB ridge village with goat domestication ancient DNA archive.
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🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Dolmen Avenue Mideast 56 — Israel Region 8
Period Medieval · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Dolmen Avenue Mideast 56 — Israel Region 8 in Israel Region 8, Israel is a Neolithic tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Tel Kabri
MB II–LB I (c.1850–1550 BCE) · Canaanite MB II with Aegean influence → Phoenician
Palatial MB II Canaanite centre (32 ha) with Minoan-style painted plaster palace (c.1850–1550 BCE), excavated by Aharon...
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient port
Caesarea Harbour — Sebastos Concrete Breakwater with Lead Piling
Herodian (22–10 BCE Sebastos harbour, Agrippa? forms Caesarea, Raban, late Roman) · Herodian Roman (Herod 22 BCE hydraulic concrete pozzolana , Vitruvius concrete for Agrippa harbour)
Caesarea Sebastos Raban 1980–90 hydraulic concrete 22 BCE Herod.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Hayonim Cave
Middle Palaeolithic to Chalcolithic (c.250 ka–3500 BCE) · Mousterian → Aurignacian → Kebaran → Natufian → Chalcolithic
Multi-period cave (6 m deposits) above the Hayonim terrace, excavated by Tamar Noy and Anna Belfer-Cohen. Sequence Moust...
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tell el-Farah North Sector 634
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 634 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Atlitz Yam Submerged Courtyard North Wall — Southern Extension
Pre-Pottery Neolithic C (7000-6000 BCE) · PPN Culture
Atlitz Yam Submerged Courtyard North Wall — Southern Extension in Haifa District, Atlit, Israel is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic C (7000-6000 BCE) submerged city attributed to PPN Culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Tel Kabri Palace Storage Annex West — Western Terrace
Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 BCE) · Canaanite
Tel Kabri Palace Storage Annex West — Western Terrace in Galilee, Western Galilee, Israel is a Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 BCE) ancient city attributed to Canaanite.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Jaffa (Tel Yafo) – Ancient Harbour of the Andromeda Reef
Middle Bronze to Ottoman (c. 1800 BCE – 1917 CE) · Canaanite / Egyptian / Phoenician / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman / Crusader / Ottoman
Biblical reef harbour of Andromeda – Byzantine seawall and Ottoman jetty 1–5 m down in Andromeda Reef gap.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Tel Kabri Palace Storage Annex West
Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 BCE) · Canaanite
Tel Kabri Palace Storage Annex West in Galilee, Western Galilee, Israel is a Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 BCE) ancient city attributed to Canaanite.
🇮🇱 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
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 · 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 · Tell
Tell el-Hesi
Neolithic through Persian–Hellenistic (c.5000 BCE–332 BCE); EBA, MB–LB Canaanite, Iron I–II, Persian · Chalcolithic–EBA Canaanite → LB Canaanite → Iron I Philistine/Judahite → Persian province
1890 stratigraphic excavation origin — 12-m Petrie tell with EBA–Persian sequence (Neolithic–Iron) founding ceramic seriation.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Akko — Ancient Harbour Mole North (Acre)
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Akko — Ancient Harbour Mole North (Acre) in Northern, Akko, Ancient Harbour, Israel is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attribute…
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Caesarea Maritima – Herod's Sebastos Harbour
Herodian to Crusader (22 BCE – 1265 CE) · Judean / Roman / Byzantine / Crusader
Herod's colossal Roman harbour Sebastos now submerged 5 m; one of earliest hydraulic-concrete harbours.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Atlit-Yam — PPNC Submerged Neolithic Well Village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic C (PPNC, 7550–6570 BCE) — with earliest olive and well 5.5 m · PPNC Mediterranean fishing-farming village with stone wells 1.5 m diameter
Atlit-Yam Galili 1984 PPNC 7550 BCE oldest well.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Kfar HaHoresh
Middle PPNB · PPNB cult complex
PPNB cult and mortuary center (7500–6650 BCE) in the Nazareth hills, not a normal village but a regional feasting and secondary-burial site serving surrounding settlements.
🇮🇱 Israel · Earthwork
Earthworks of Henge
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Earthworks of Henge in Negev, Israel is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) earthwork attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Megalith
Forge Dolmen
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Forge Dolmen in Negev, Israel is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Roman culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Tel Dor — Phoenician Port
Middle Bronze Age to Roman (2000 BCE–200 CE) · Canaanite / Phoenician / Sea Peoples (Sikils)
Tel Dor — Phoenician Port in Carmel Coast, Israel is a Middle Bronze Age to Roman (2000 BCE–200 CE) ancient-city attributed to Canaanite / Phoenician / Sea Peoples (Sikils).
🇮🇱 Israel · Temple complex
Antonia Fortress
The Antonia Fortress (Aramaic: קצטרא דאנטוניה) was a citadel built by Herod the Great and named for Herod's patron Mark Antony, as a fortress whose chief function was to protect the Second Temple.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Charnel House Cemetery East — Coastal Plain (Tel Aviv)
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Charnel House Cemetery East in Coastal Plain, Israel is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Keisan — Acco Plain
Early Bronze Age to Hellenistic (3500–150 BCE) · Canaanite / Phoenician / Assyrian
Tel Keisan — Acco Plain in Galilee coastal plain, Israel is a Early Bronze Age to Hellenistic (3500–150 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Phoenician / Assyrian.