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The archaeological excavation at Mamshit uncovered the largest hoard of coins ever found in Israel: 10,500 silver coins in a bronze jar, dating to the 3rd century CE. [86] Among the Nabatean cities found in the Negev ( Avdat , Haluza , Shivta ) Mamshit is the smallest (10 acres), but the best preserved and restored.
The first jeep of the emergency survey Surveyors camp at Nahal Sirpad Surveyors in the fields. Be'er Tuvia map. After the establishment of Israel, Shemuel Yeivin, the first director of the antiquities department, suggested to David Ben-Gurion "to conduct an archaeological survey in the area of the State of Israel, so that future generations in the country will know about the history hidden in ...
The chronological periods are abbreviated in this way: Pa - Paleolithic; EP - Epipalaeolithic; Ne - Neolithic; Ch - Chalcolithic; EB - Early Bronze Age; IB - Intermediate Bronze Age (also called "Early Bronze IV" and "Middle Bronze I")
Archaeological excavations held at the site uncovered a series of Iron Age period Judahite burial chambers, dating to the 7th and 6th centuries BCE. It is famous for the Ketef Hinnom scrolls , which are the oldest surviving texts from the Hebrew Bible currently known, dated to 600 BC.
العربية; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Boarisch; Čeština; Cymraeg
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA, Hebrew: רשות העתיקות rashut ha-'atiqot; Arabic: داﺌرة الآثار, before 1990, the Israel Department of Antiquities) is an independent Israeli governmental authority responsible for enforcing the 1978 Law of Antiquities. The IAA regulates excavation and conservation, and promotes research.
Horvat Maʿon (Hebrew) or Tell Maʿin / Khirbet el-Maʿin [1] (Arabic) is an archaeological site located 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Gaza and 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) southeast of Kibbutz Nirim in the Negev, the arid southern portion of Israel. In the Roman period, the site is thought to have formed the western boundary of the Limes ...
Tel Aviv is the journal of the Tel Aviv University Institute of Archaeology.It is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Routledge. [1] It publishes articles on recent archaeological research in the Southern Levant and studies in Near Eastern archaeology.