A new site was added:
Ruins of a large Byzantine Church were unearthed in a valley south east of Ramat Beit Shemesh.
More here: Church of the Glorious Martyr
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Ruins of a large Byzantine Church were unearthed in a valley south east of Ramat Beit Shemesh.
More here: Church of the Glorious Martyr
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A visitor’s center and historical well in BeerSheba, associated with the history of the Patriarchs Abraham and Isaac.
More here: Abraham’s well
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A new site was added in the Beth Shemesh area:
Khirbet el-‘Alya is a multi-period site, towering over the west side of Ramat Beit-Shemesh Aleph.
More here: Kh. el-Alya
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BibleWalks.com 15th year serving the community – July 5, 2006 – 2021
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A new site was added in the Negev area:
Ruins of a Israelite period desert fortress and settlement, later reused by the Nabateans.
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A new site was added in the Negev area:
Ruins of a Israelite period desert fortress and small settlement, near the confluence of Nahal Boker and HaRoeh streams with HaBasor stream.
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New site added in the Negev desert area: Ramat-Boker fortress
Ruins of Iron Age fortress and settlement, overlooking the valley of Nahal Boker. It guarded the ancient desert route thru Nahal Besor.
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A new place was added in the Beerotayim (Ezuz) page: Iron Age fortress
An Iron Age fortress was located on the western hill overlooking the ancient route from to Kadesh Barnea, and protected the oasis of the “two wells”. It is dated to the Iron Age IIa period (1000-925 BC), and continued to be in use during the Persian period.
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A new site was added in the Upper Galilee area: Naburiya (Kefar-Nevorya, Navoraya, Nebratein) –
A Jewish village of the first and second temple and the Roman/Byzantine periods, with ruins of a synagogue.
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New aerial views were added in Kh. Banat Bar (Zereda), where remains of a Hellenistic/Hasmonean period tower were discovered and recently published.
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