Ruins of multi-period archaeological site on the summit of a high hill of Mount Gilboa.
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Category Archives: New site
New site: Giv’at Yonathan
Giv’at Yonathan (Jonathan Hill, Horvat Karmet, Karmat) is the site of an ancient walled city dating back to the Bronze and Iron Ages, located on a low projecting spur of Mount Gilboa.
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New site: Nurit
Horvat Nurit (Kh. Nuris) is a multi-period archaeological ruin, situated on the northern foothills of Mt. Gilboa.
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New site: Horvat Hemed
A new site added in the Samaria region: Horvat Hemed (Khirbet el Fakhakhir, Khirbet Hamad). An Iron Age and Roman/Byzantine ruin, on the top of a commanding hill, overlooking the Cross-Samaria road.
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New site: el-Janab cave
A new site was added in Samaria region: el Janab refuge cave.
A karst system cave in central Samaria, used as a refuge place over thousands of years. Archaeological survey dated findings from the Chalcolithic thru the Mamluk periods (5th millennium BC to the early 2nd millennium AD).
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New site: Tel Iztabba
Added a new site in the Yizreel/Beit Shean valley area:
Tel Iztabba was the northern extension of ancient city of Beit Shean during the Byzantine period, and the main area of the Hellenistic city, Scythopolis.
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New site: Horvat A-Dir
A new site was added in the Jordan Valley region: Horvat A-Dir (Khirbet e-Deir)
Ruins of an Iron Age fortress and a Byzantine period monastery west of Menahemia.
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New site: Horvat Kush
Horvat Kush (Khirbet el Khushsha or Khirbet el Mansurah), situated at the mouth of the Yavne’el Valley, contains remains from several historical periods, ranging from the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman/Byzantine, and later periods. Remains of residential buildings, casemate walls, aqueducts and agricultural structures and installations have been discovered at the site. It is possibly an Iron Age II fortification that guarded the pass, identified as Biblical Lakum.
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New site: Tel Amal
A new site was added in the Jezreel valley area: Tel Amal – Sakhne
A spring, park, archaeological mound and museum at the foothills of Mt. Gilboa.
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New: Aenon near Salim
A new set of sites was added in the Jordan valley region:
We are searching for clues on the location of “Aenon near Salim” pool where John the Baptist was baptizing people. (John 3, 23): “Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were coming and being baptized”.
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