Prof. Garfinkel’s visit

Distinguished archaeologist, Professor Yosef Garfinkel, visited with BibleWalks team in several sites in the northern Jordan valley. Yosef Garfinkel is a renown professor of Prehistoric Archaeology and Biblical Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His many researches and works include famous Biblical sites: Kh. Qeyafa (Shaaraim), Tel LachishKh. al-Ra’i, and world renowned prehistoric sites: Tel Tsaf, Horvat Minha (Kh. Munhata), Prehistoric GesherUbeidiya and Sha’ar Hagolan.

The tour included several of the Iron Age forts south of the Sea of Galilee that were reviewed as part of BibleWalks Jordan valley Archaeological survey. These sites were:  Horvat Hardon, Horvat A-Dir and Horvat Kush.

Prehistoric sites were also visited: Ubeidiya and Horvat Minha (Kh. Munhata).

 



Garfinkel and Yoram at Ubeidiya prehistoric site.



Garfinkel and Ayelet at Ubeidiya prehistoric site.

 

 

 

 

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New Video recorder

A new video camera (DJI Osmo Pocket 3) was added to BibleWalks survey team. It will assist in recording our surveys, adding live video capture options.

First released survey: Horvat Kush – an Iron age fortress in the northern Jordan valley area.

 

 

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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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Updated: Horvat Oren

The web page has been updated with new material and photos.

The site is in the center of mount Carmel, on top of a hill, overlooking the Oren valley. It was the largest city on Mount Carmel from the Late Bronze to the  Roman/Byzantine periods.

 

 

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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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