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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Category Archives: New site
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”.
Explore the site … and join the search
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New Site: Tel Shalem
A new site was added in the Jordan Valley area:
Tel Shalem (Tell Salim, Tell er Radghah) is an ancient mound, located in the Jordan valley near a bountiful spring. Several settlements were established on and around the hill, including a Roman military camp and “Aenon near Salim” baptizing site of John the Baptist.
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New site: Horvat Baat
A new site was added in the Jordan valley sites:
Horvat Baat (Khirbet el Bawati) – a ruined village dated to the Roman/Byzantine and Early Arab period. Located on the side of the imperial Roman road from Tiberias and Gadara to Beit She’an Scythopolis.
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New Fazael sites
New sites added in the Fazael brook area:
Tell Sheikh edh Dhiab – Iron Age mound, on the eastern section of Fazael brook;
Rujm Abu Mukheir – Iron Age round fortress that protected the road to Samaria.
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New site: Dir Baal
New site added in Judea Region: Kh. Dir Baal.
Ruins of a Persian period fortress in the city of Beitar Illit.
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New: Mt. Eldad fort
A new page was added in the Negev area:
Ruins of a Israelite period desert fortress on the bank of Nahal Zin, near Mt. Eldad
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New: H. Shfanim
A new site was added in the Beit Jann page: Horvat Shfanim (Kh. Shufnin): Ruins of the large fortified Bronze and Iron age village are located on a hill, 0.5KM east of Beit Jann. It may have been the Biblical village of “Beth-Dagon” of the Galilee.
More Jordan Valley sites
Four new sites were added, as part of BibleWalks survey of the Jordan valley:
Tels Eshtori, Nimrod, Midrash, Zofim – Bronze/Iron age sites in the Jordan valley, on the route from Beit Shean to the Jordan river crossing at Sheikh Hussein.
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2 Sites in Jordan valley
Two new sites added, as part of BibleWalks survey of the Jordan valley:
Tel Malqet and Tel Ro’eh
Two Bronze/Iron age sites in the Jordan valley, on the route from Rechov to the Jordan river crossings.
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