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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...

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 University’s excavations directed by the late Prof. Yizhar Hirschfeld exposed remains from all periods, including a Roman palace, simple dwellings, a luxurious late antique mansion, urban infrastructure such as streets and sewage systems, and a commercial and administrative center from the Early Islamic period when the...

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 “Land of Geshur Regional Project.” Despite its relatively small size, the finds from the excavations have immense importance for understanding the cultural interactions between Syria and the southern Levant in the Bronze and Iron Ages and for the chronology...

Because of its unique stratigraphic sequence ranging from the Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8th millennium cal. BC) to the Late Pottery Neolithic (6th ...

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 south of the Sea of Galilee, and is the type-site for the Yarmukian culture, which occupied large parts of Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon.  The excavations have opened new horizons for our understanding of the Neolithic period, but also have more far-reaching implications for the entire ancient Near East in terms of history of...

Tel Shiqmona is a modest mound of ca. 2 acres, situated on a small rocky headland between the Carmel...

Eynan ('Ain Mallaha in Arabic) is located 33° 08’ North, 35° 57’ East in Israel. It constitutes one of the largest known Natufian settlements occupied according to C14 dating between 14,500 and 11,700 BP. Eynan - Ain Mallaha is often described as one of the first villages of the Humankind. It is located in the Hula Basin, a part of the Upper Jordan Valley, not far from an ancient lake, near a perennial spring. This setting in a rich, humid environment favored the development of sedentary life as attested by a long sequence of semi-subterranean...

Underwater archaeology in Israel began in 1960 and, already then, traces of submerged settlements were discovered. The first research took place in 1969, when the Neve-Yam site was exposed by a winter storm. Subsequently, during the early 1980s, a research project aimed at locating, excavating, salvage and research of submerged prehistoric settlements was established by E. Galili. Six decades of research has revealed 17 submerged prehistoric sites, containing...