Excavation Projects
Tell Abu Shusha
Tell Abu Shusha is Gaba Hippeon a city founded by King Herod for as a base for his cavalry forces. Since as early as 2000 BCE, the city guarded one of the main roads into the Jezreel Valley.
Tel Megiddo
Megiddo is the jewel in the crown of biblical archaeology. Strategically perched above the most important land route in the ancient Near East, the city dominated international traffic for over 6,000 years — from ca. 7,000 B.C.E. through to biblical times. As civilizations came and went, succeeding settlements at ancient Megiddo were built on the ruins of their predecessors, creating a multi-layered archaeological legacy that abounds in unparalleled treasures that include monumental temples, lavish palaces, mighty fortifications, and remarkably-engineered water systems.
The Hefzibah Project
The Hefzibah Project seeks to identify the original findspot of the renowned “Hefzibah
Inscription,” a Hellenistic royal dossier dated to the Fifth Syrian War (early 2nd century
BCE). Discovered in 1960 near Kibbutz Hefzibah, the inscription’s precise
archaeological context has long been uncertain due to conflicting toponyms in early reports. Archival research, oral testimony, and renewed fieldwork now strongly indicate that the inscription originated at Horvat Shammot in the Harod Valley. The project aims to document the site and situate the inscription within its proper historical and landscape context
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Directed by: Roi Sabar and
Matthew J. Adams
Affiliations: The Hebrew University and The Center for the Mediterranean World
