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  1. Archaeology of Israel: The archaeology of Israel is researched intensively in the universities of the region and also attracts considerable internation...
  2. Bayit VeGan: Bayit VeGan is a neighborhood in southwest-central Jerusalem, Israel, populated mainly by religious Jews. Bayit VeGan is loca...
  3. Beersheba: Beersheba is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it becam...
  4. Beit Alfa: Beit Alfa is a kibbutz in the Northern District of Israel, near the Gilboa ridge. The kibbutz was founded in 1922 by Hashomer H...
  5. Beit HaKerem (neighbourhood): Beit HaKerem is an affluent neighborhood in west-central Jerusalem, Israel. To the northwest is the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood, ...
  6. Beit She'arim National Park: '''Beit She'arim, also known as Beth She'arim, is the archeological site of a Jewish town and necropolis. The site is part of th...
  7. Belvoir Fortress (Israel): The Crusader fortress of Belvoir, located on a hill of the Naphtali plateau, 20 km. south of the Sea of Galilee and about 500 me...
  8. Bethsaida: Bethsaida ...
  9. Biblical archaeology: For the movement associated with William F. Albright and known as Biblical archaeology, see Biblical archaeology school. For the...
  10. Bnei Hazir tomb: The Bnei Hazir tomb is the oldest of three burial sites discovered in the Kidron Valley, Jerusalem. ...
  11. Caesarea Maritima: Caesarea Maritima , called Caesarea Palaestina from 133 CE onwards, was a city and harbor built by Herod the Great about 2513 B...
  12. Capernaum: Capernaum ...
  13. Cave of Adullam: The Cave of Adullam was originally an underground cavern and/or fortress (*) referred to in the Old Testament, near the town of ...
  14. Chorazin: Chorazin was a village in northern Galilee, two and a half miles from Capernaum and the Sea of Galilee. The site is an excavated...
  15. Dor: This article is about the ancient cities and archaeological site. For other uses, see Dor (disambiguation). ...
  16. Ein Gev: Ein Gev is a kibbutz located on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. It falls under the jurisdiction of ...
  17. El-`Ubeidiya: El-`Ubeidiya , some 3 km south of Lake Tiberias, in the Jordan Rift Valley, is an archaeological site of the Pleistocene, ca. 1...
  18. Eleutheropolis: Eleutheropolis ("city of the free") was the Greek name of a Roman city in Palestine (modern Israel), some 53 km southwest of Jer...
  19. Emmaus Nicopolis: Emmaus Nicopolis (lit. City of Victory) is a New Testament site at the Latrun junction, between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel. ...
  20. Es Skhul: Es Skhul (meaning kids) is a cave site situated c. 20 kilometers south of the Israeli town of Haifa, and c. 3 kilometers from th...
  21. Ghassulian: The Ghassulian was an archaeological stage dating to the Middle Chalcolithic Period in southern Israel (c. 3800c. 3350 BC). Its ...
  22. Gibeon (ancient city): Gibeon was a Canaanite city north of Jerusalem that was conquered by Joshua. Today, the Arab village of al-Jib sits on the ruin...
  23. Golan: This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. As ...
  24. Haluza: Haluza, also known as Halasa and Elusa, is a city in the Negev that was once part of the Nabataean Incense Route. Due to this hi...
  25. Hamat Gader: Hamat Gader is a site in the Yarmouk River valley, near the Sea of Galilee in Israel. The name means "hot springs of Gadara", r...
  26. Herodian architecture: Herodian architecture is a style of classical architecture characteristic of the numerous building projects undertaken during th...
  27. Incense Route Desert Cities in the Negev: Incense Route Desert Cities in the Negev is a World Heritage-designated itinerary in the Negev, southern Israel. The site of pa...
  28. Israelite highland settlement: Since the 1970s a number of archaeological field surveys have been undertaken in Israel. As a result, it has been determined th...
  29. Jotapata: Jotapata was an ancient fortified Jewish village in the Galilee, north of Sepphoris, Israel, mostly known for the bloody and ru...
  30. Jubb Yussef (Joseph's Well): The ruins at Jubb Yussef in the Galilee are identified with the pit in Dothan, into which the Biblical figure Joseph was cast ...
  31. Judea: Judea or Judaea is the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel , an area now divided between Israel and the We...
  32. Kafr Kanna: Kafr Kanna is an Arab town in the Galilee region of Israel that is associated with the New Testament village of Cana, where Jes...
  33. Kal'at Al Mina: '''Kal'at Al Mina''' is Fatimid citadel in Ashdod-Sea site on the southern coast of modern city of Ashdod. ...
  34. Kfar Monash: Kfar Monash is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the northern part of the Sharon plain and covering 2,700 dunams, it falls...
  35. Kfar Monash Hoard: The Kfar Monash Hoard is a hoard of metal objects found in the spring of 1962 by the agriculturalist, Zvi Yizhar. Kfar Monash is...
  36. Khirbet Beit Lei: Khirbet Beit Lei is an archaeological site in the Judean lowlands, in Israel. Its name means "Ruin of the House of Lei" in Arabi...
  37. Khirbet Kefireh: Khirbet Kefireh is a modern town just north of Katana, Israel on a hilltop covering about 4-5 acres. It appears in the Survey ...
  38. Khirbet Qeiyafa: Khirbet Qeiyafa (or Kiafa) is an archaeological site estimated at 14 hectares located on the northern hills that border the Elah...
  39. Khirbet Sharta: Khirbet Sharta is an ancient site in northern Israel situated in northeast Kiryat Atta upon two hills spaced about 300 meters ap...
  40. Lachish: Lachish was a town located in the Shephelah, or maritime plain of Philistia . This town was first mentioned in the Amarna lette...
  41. LMLK seal: LMLK seals were stamped on the handles of large storage jars mostly in and around Jerusalem during the reign of King Hezekiah (c...
  42. Ma'agan Michael: '''Ma'agan Michael''' is a kibbutz in Israel. It is currently the largest kibbutz in the country, with a population of over 1,4...
  43. Mamshit: Mamshit is the Nabataean city of Memphis. In the Nabataean period, Mamshit was important because it sat on Incense Road, on the...
  44. Maresha: Tel Maresha , also Marissa, is an antiquity site in Israel's southern lowlands. ...
  45. Mary's Well: Marys Well is reputed to be located at the site where the Angel Gabriel appeared to the Mary and announced that she would bear ...
  46. Masada: Masada is the name for a site of ancient palaces and fortifications in the South District of Israel on top of an isolated rock ...
  47. Mesad Hashavyahu: Mesad Hashavyahu is an ancient fortress on the border of ancient Judea facing the Philistine city of Ashdod near the Mediterrane...
  48. MMST: MMST redirects here. For the Metropolitan Medical Strike Team, see Metropolitan Medical Strike Team. ...
  49. Monastery of Martyrius: The Monastery of Martyrius, now located in the center of the Israeli city of Ma'ale Adumim, east of Jerusalem, is one of dozens ...
  50. Montfort Castle: The Montfort is a ruined crusader fortress in the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, about 22 miles (35 km) northeast of ...
  51. Nahal Tut: Nahal Tut is an archaeological site excavated along the streambed of the same name in northern Israel's Menashe Heights from Fe...
  52. Neve David: Neve David is an Early Epipaleolithic site located at the foot of the western slope of the Mount Carmel hills in northern Israel...
  53. Nitzana (Nabataean city): Nitzana is an ancient Nabataean city located in the Negev desert in Israel close to the Egyptian border. It may have been a sta...
  54. Ohalo: Ohalo is the common designation for the Ohalo II archaeological site, the remains of an approximately 23,000 year old campsite o...
  55. Omrit: Located in the northeast corner of the Hulah Valley in Israel/ edge of the Golan Heights, the ancient site of Omrit (also known ...
  56. Qafzeh: Qafzeh or Kafzeh is a paleoanthropological site at Mount Kafzeh south of Nazareth, Israel. Since 1933, eleven significant fossil...
  57. Qumran: For the country that features in Yes Minister, see here. ...
  58. Rehov: Rehob redirects here: it can also mean "to fit new hobnails to a boot". ...
  59. Sde Nahum: Sde Nahum is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. Located around 4 km northwest of Beit She'an, it falls und...
  60. Sharuhen: Sharuhen was an ancient town in the Negev Desert, between Rafah and Gaza. Following the expulsion of the Hyksos from Egypt in th...
  61. Shiloh (Bible): Shiloh is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a city. ...
  62. Shivta: Shivta or Sobota , is an archaeological site in the Negev Desert of Israel, east to Nitzana. ...
  63. Shuafat: '''Shu'fat'also Shuafat'' is a Palestinian town within the de facto borders of Israel as part of north-eastern Jerusalem. Locate...
  64. Tabgha: Tabgha (Hebrew Ein Sheva), an area situated on the north-western shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel, is the traditional sit...
  65. Tabun Cave: Tabun Cave located at Mount Carmel, Israel, was occupied intermittently during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic ages . In the co...
  66. Talpiot Tomb: The Talpiot Tomb (or Talpiyot Tomb) is a tomb discovered in 1980 in the East Talpiot Israeli neighborhood five kilometers south ...
  67. Tel Afek: Tel Afek, , commonly spelled Aphek, is an archaeological site in Israel's Ein Afek Nature Reserve, east of the town of Kiryat Bi...
  68. Tel Batash: Tel Batash is a tell within which was found archaeological remains of biblical Timnah. The tell is located in the Sorek Valley ...
  69. Tel Be'er Sheva: '''Tel Be'er Sheva''' is an archeological site in southern Israel believed to be the remains of the biblical town of Be'er Shev...
  70. Tel Hazor: Tel Hazor is a tell above the site of ancient Hazor, whose archeological remains are the largest and richest known in modern Is...
  71. Tel Megiddo: Megiddo is a hill in modern Israel near the Kibbutz of Megiddo, known for historical, geographical, and theological reasons. ...
  72. Tell el-Hesi: Tell el-Hesi is an archaeological site in Israel. It was the first major site excavated in Palestine, first by Flinders Petrie i...
  73. Tell es-Safi: Tell es-Safi or Tel Zafit is an ancient mound usually identified as Gath, one of the ancient Canaanite and Philistine five citi...
  74. Tell Qasile: Tell Qasile is an archaeological site over 3,000 years old. The site consists of the remains of a port city founded by the Phili...
  75. Tell Zeitah: Tell Zeitah (or Tel Zayit) is a roughly tell located in the Shephelah, or lowlands, of Israel. Excavations on the tell, sponsor...
  76. Tiberias: Tiberias is a town on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, Lower Galilee, Israel. It was named in honour of the emperor Ti...
  77. Tribal allotments of Israel: According to the Book of Joshua, Joshua divided the newly conquered land of Canaan into parcels, and assigned them to the Tribes...

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