Levant - Central

Published 2025. Please visit the publication's webpage. Tel Nagila is a multi-period site situated on the western bank of Nahal Shiqma in the southern coastal plain. The most intensive occupation occurred during the Middle Bronze Age IIB-C period, when a...

Vol. I: Sanctuary, Cult and Metal Recycling Vol. II: Cemetery and International Connections The excavations of Tel Nami and its environs, in Israel, exhibit contacts with the eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus, coastal Syria, coastal Anatolia, coastal Egypt...

PUBLISHED 2023. Please visit the publication's webpage . The multi-period site of Tel Akko is located on the northern Mediterranean coast of Israel at a confluence of ancient trade routes along both sea and land. As a gateway city, Akko was central in...

The goal of this project is to analyze and publish the stratigraphic data and finds from these remaining unprocessed areas of Tel 'Akko, and synthesize the results with these other areas, and in a broader eastern Mediterranean historical and...

Tel Michal (Makmish in Arabic) is located in the central coastal plain of Israel, on the southern coast of the modern city of Herzliya (32°16'29'' N, 34°80'07'' E). The site has an irregular form, comprising five separate components that cover areas of...

PUBLISHED 2014. Please visit the publication's webpage This project is part of an effort towards the final publication of excavations at Tell Jemmeh. Tell Jemmeh (Tel Re'im) is in the northwestern Negev desert about 10 km south of Gaza (map reference 097...

The city of Tiberias is located on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee in modern day Israel (32°46" N, 35°32" E). It was founded in 19 CE by King Herod Antipas, and was continuously occupied until the Crusader conquest in 1099 CE. The Hebrew...

Tel Hadar (Sheikh Khadr) is a well-stratified mound in the central Levant, located on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee (32°51’2.96 “N, 35°38’58.46 “E). It was excavated between 1987 and 1998 by the late Moshe Kochavi and Pirhiya Beck as part of the...

Because of its unique stratigraphic sequence ranging from the Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8 th millennium cal. BC) to the Late Pottery Neolithic (6 th millennium cal. BC), Munhata is one of the most important prehistoric site for tracking the...

This project will yield final publication of the data collected during Y. Garfinkel's 11 years of excavation (1989-90, 1996-2004) at the 8,000-year-old Neolithic site of Sha'ar Hagolan the site is located in the central Jordan Valley of Israel, 1.5 miles...