Tel Yarmut (Jarmuth) is a major Early Bronze II-III period city, located on a vast mound overlooking Ramat Beit Shemesh. A monumental Early Bronze III palace was exposed on the lower city. Occupation continued 1000 years later on the upper city during the Late Bronze and Iron Age periods, and was one of the Amorite cities that attempted to block Joshua and the Israelites.
>> Visit the Tel Yarmut site.
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A new site was added:
Tel Rekhesh (Rechesh) is the largest Biblical mound in the lower Galilee, with remains of multi-period Canaanite and Israelite cities and an Early Roman farmstead.
Visit the site: Tel Rekhesh
A new site was added in the Jerusalem region: Elaborate underground complexes of Early Roman tombs, located in the Sanhedria neighborhood in Northern Jerusalem.
Read more on Sanhedria
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New site added – Ruins of a 8th century church located on Mt. Berniki (Berenice), high above the Roman city of Tiberias. Nicknamed ‘the Anchor Church’ based on a relic stone found embedded in its apse.
Visit the site of Berniki hill in Tiberias.
New site added –
Karm er-Ras is possible location of Jesus’s first miracle – turning water to wine. The site is located near the traditional place in Kafr Kanna.
Visit the site of Karm er-Ras
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A new site was added: Kh. Ferasin, a large fortified Tel, situated near an ancient strategic road in the Northern Samaria region.
visit Ferasin
New site added in Jerusalem area: Ramat Rachel.
Ruins of a royal palace and administration center, on the south outskirts of Jerusalem, overlooking the road to Bethlehem and Hebron.
A new site was added in the Shefela area – Tel Haror. Ruins of a multi-period massive Biblical city. A possible identification is Gerar, an important royal city in the age of the Patriarchs.
See the Tel Haror page.
A new site was added in Jaffa area: public fountains (Sebils) dated to the Ottoman period.
Read more: Jaffa Sebils
