"The release"

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He is a great steep in the western Negev, located in the northern garment of the Graer River, near the seat of Shilo. The depend extends over 150 hectares, dividing into two parts – the lower city and the upper city. At the top of the 23rd there is a Turkish cemetery from the time of the First World War, and it is possible to see the tomb of Sheikh Abu Harra, one of the disciples of the Prophet Muhammad, whose name is the pod. Until the State of Israel’s War of Independence, the residents of the Arab region used to rise to the grave and sacrifice there for a week. According to one of the explanations, the void is the place of the biblical city of Gerar, mentioned from the period of the forefathers, and from the Middle East from the 6th century as the Silus Gertycus. At the top of the tomb attributed to Sheikh Abu Harra, of Muhammad’s students who were reverent on the Bedouins, hence his name in Arabic.

History of History

The excavations on the site were held between 1982 and 1988 by the Ben-Gurion University Expedition, in collaboration with the French Centre for Scientific Research in Jerusalem and the University of Brandeis. The excavations ran Eliezer Oren. The excavations revealed that first, during the Middle Bronze Age, the settlement took place in the lower part of the podium. After that, towards the end of the Bronze Age, the settlement was closed to the north and during the Iron Age, and the settlement took place only on the high.

The Bronze Age
During the Middle Bronze II (between 2000 and 1550 BCE) took place on the territory of the low settlement, which was among the largest settlements in the south. The settlement was fortified with a large dirt submarine, which at a later stage was built on a huge stone wall. Among the findings from this period are the remains of his temple and several stages. In this temple, many evidence of animal sacrifice and large quantity of pottery vessels were found. According to the testimonies from the excavations of the site, we will not be destroyed, but will be severed in the late Middle Bronze Age. During the Late Bronze Age, the settlement continued, as its center moved to the southeastern part of the site, on the pre-era creatures and near the Graer Springs. The main area is only 4 hectares. The remains of buildings were found, including perhaps remnants of the castle and ass for the storage of grain. The tools found from this period are dated to 1550-1300 BC and included many tools imported from Cyprus. There is also Ostercon, in which he wrote the aristian originating in ancient Egypt.

Iron and Persian periods
During the Early Iron Age (1200–1000 BC) remains of a fortified Palestine settlement that took place in a small portion of the lower. The area of this settlement was between 2–3 hectares. In the other lower parts, further evidence of human activity was found in those days that included mainly garbage pits and various facilities. During the Late Iron Age, around the 8th century BC, after the Ashurie conquest by the Third Plir, a fortified settlement was built in the high. The system of fortifications of this settlement was huge and included a battery, a wall of 4 meters thick, slippery, guard towers and corner fortresses. This settlement was also a large warehouse district where many tools. Among them are pottery vessels on which the inscription "in the clothing", which marked 8 in the arhytic writing and an Egyptian motif. Tools from different cultures such as Finnish and Indian culture were found on the site. In the opinion of the excavation of the establishment of the fortified settlement in the void is part of the efforts of a plane to create a grip on a land of Palestine. The settlement was destroyed in a fire in the 7th or 6th century BC.

After the Persian occupation of the 6th century BCE, there was a large and perhaps also planned settlement site in which many imported vessels from the area of Greece were found. The vast system of creatures built by the fires was out of use.

External links

Bar-Oz G Nahshoni P, Motro H, Oren ED (2013) Symbolic Metal Bit and Saddlebag Fastenings in a Middle Bronz