New site was added in Judea region:

The Biblical place of Tel Kir’yat Ye’arim in Abu Ghosh, and the Monastery of the Ark of Covenant on top of the hill.

–> Read more about Kiriath Jearim.

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A new site was added in the North Eastern Samaria region:

A Crusader hilltop fortress, commanding the ancient road of Wady Malih.

-> Read More about  Burj el maleh

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A new site was added in Judea region:

A Benedictine monastery in Abu Ghosh, built on the foundations of a 12th century Crusaders church, near the ancient road to Jerusalem.

Read more: Abu Ghosh

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A new site was added:

A large archaeological site in the Judean Shephelah region, with remains of a rich Early Roman period rural settlement and a Byzantine church.

-> Read more about Horvat Midras

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Tel Yarmut (Jarmuth) is a major Early Bronze II-III period city, located on a vast mound overlooking Ramat Beit Shemesh. A monumental Early Bronze III palace was exposed on the lower city. Occupation continued 1000 years later on the upper city during the Late Bronze and Iron Age periods, and was one of the Amorite cities that attempted to block Joshua and the Israelites.

>> Visit the Tel Yarmut site.

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A new site was added:

Tel Rekhesh (Rechesh) is the largest Biblical mound in the lower Galilee, with remains of multi-period Canaanite and Israelite cities and an Early Roman farmstead.

Visit the site:  Tel Rekhesh

A new site was added in the Jerusalem region:   Elaborate underground complexes of Early Roman tombs, located in the Sanhedria neighborhood in Northern Jerusalem.

Read more on Sanhedria

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New site added – Ruins of a 8th century church located on Mt. Berniki (Berenice), high above the Roman city of Tiberias. Nicknamed ‘the Anchor Church’ based on a relic stone found embedded in its apse.

  Visit the site of Berniki hill in Tiberias.