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Tel Keisan (Tell Keisan)
Middle Bronze – Persian (2000–300 BCE) · Canaanite–Phoenician–Persian
Middle Bronze – Persian (2000–300 BCE) tell of Canaanite–Phoenician–Persian in Northern District, Akko Plain (c.2000 BCE).
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🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Middle Bronze – Persian (2000–300 BCE) · Canaanite–Phoenician–Persian
Middle Bronze – Persian (2000–300 BCE) tell of Canaanite–Phoenician–Persian in Northern District, Akko Plain (c.2000 BCE).
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Bronze to Iron Age (4500–733 BCE) · Canaanite/Israelite
Tel Dan — Laish / Leslie in Northern District, Upper Galilee, Israel is a Bronze to Iron Age (4500–733 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite/Israelite culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Phoenician to Crusader (1500 BCE–1291 CE) · Phoenician / Crusader (Hospitaller south mole)
Akko Submerged Crusader Harbour — Acre South Mole in Northern District, Israel is a Phoenician to Crusader (1500 BCE–1291 CE) submerged-city attributed to Phoenician / Crusader (Hospitaller south…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient 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 · Tell
Bronze to Iron Age (2700–732 BCE) · Canaanite/Israelite
Tel Hazor — Upper Galilee in Northern District, Hula Valley, Israel is a Bronze to Iron Age (2700–732 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite/Israelite culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Kafr Kanna (Arabic: كفر كنا, Kafr Kanā; Hebrew: כַּפְר כַּנָּא) is an Arab town in the Galilee, part of the Northern District of Israel.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Bir al-Maksur or Beer el-Maksura (Arabic: بئر المكسور; Hebrew: בִּיר אל-מַכְּסוּר) is an Arab Bedouin local council in the Northern District of Israel located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) north-west of…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Acre ( AH-kər, AY-kər), known in Hebrew as Akko (Hebrew: עַכּוֹ, ʻAkkō, IPA: [ˈako]) and in Arabic as Akka (Arabic: عكّا, ʻAkkā, IPA: [ˈʕak.ka]), is a city in the coastal plain region of the Northern…
🇮🇱 Israel · Fortress
ruined crusader castle in the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel
🇮🇱 Israel · Fortress
mountain in northern Israel traditionally believed to be the scene of the Transfiguration of Jesus
🇮🇱 Israel · Megalith
Dan (Biblical Hebrew: דָּן), and older name Laish, is an ancient city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, described as the northernmost city of the Kingdom of Israel, and belonging to the tribe of Dan,…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Epipalaeolithic Late Natufian (12,500–11,700 BP) · Late Natufian (Levant)
Late Natufian lake-margin hamlet with carved pebbles and bedrock mortar village near Sea of Galilee.
🇮🇱 Israel · Necropolis
Beit She'arim Necropolis (Hebrew: בֵּית שְׁעָרִים, "House of Gates") is an extensive rock-cut necropolis located near the ancient Jewish town of Beit She'arim, 20 km east of Haifa in the southern…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Hellenistic (125–80 BCE) over Iron Persian tell · Phoenician Hellenistic (Sidonian merchants)
Hula tell excavated by Weinberg & Berlin 1968–86, 125 BCE stuccoed luxury house with Doric stucco columns.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Middle Bronze to Ottoman (c. 2000 BCE – 1917 CE) · Canaanite / Phoenician / Hellenistic / Roman / Crusader / Ottoman
Crusader capital's double harbour – Hellenistic mole 100 m at –3 m and Tower of Flies islet mole submerged.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
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 · Archaeological wonder
Kedesh (alternate spellings: Qedesh, Cadesh, Cydessa) was an ancient Canaanite and later Israelite settlement in Upper Galilee, mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
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 · Archaeological wonder
Khirbet Qana (Arabic: خربة قانا), is an archaeological site in the Lower Galilee of Israel. It has remains of a settlement from the Hellenistic period to the Early Arab period.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Khirbet Shema is an archaeological site located in Israel at the foot of Mount Meron. It features the ruins of a large Jewish village of the Roman and Byzantine periods, including the remains of an…