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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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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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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A new site was added in the Jezreel valley area: Tel Amal – Sakhne

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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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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 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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