Archaeological Sites in Israel
City/town/settlement in Israel (9)
Avdat National Park
Avdat is a ruined ancient city in the Negev Desert that was the most important city on the Incense Route after Petra. Originally called Oboda, the site was inhabited from the 3rd…
Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park
Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park in central Israel encompasses the ruins of Maresha, an important town of Judah from the 8th century BC, and Beit Guvrin (Roman Eleutheropolis).…
Caesarea Philippi
Caesarea Philippi, originally called Banias, is an ancient site at the foot of Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights. The spring is the source of the Banias River, one of the main…
City of David
The City of David, known locally mostly in Arabic as Wadi Hilweh, is the name given to an archaeological site considered by most scholars to be the original settlement core of…
Horvat Shema
Khirbet Shema is an archaeological site located in Israel at the foot of Mount Meron. It features the ruins of a large Jewish village of the Roman and Byzantine periods, including…
Mamshit National Park
Mampsis or Memphis, today Mamshit, Kurnub, is a former Nabataean caravan stop and Byzantine city. In the Nabataean period, Mampsis was an important station on the Incense Road,…
Shivta National Park
Shivta, originally Sobata or Subeita, is an ancient city in the Negev Desert of Israel located 43 kilometers southwest of Beersheba. A few Roman-period ruins have been discovered,…
Tel Hazor National Park
Tel Hazor, located in Upper Galilee north of the Sea of Galilee, was one of the most important cities in the Fertile Crescent. The city maintained commercial networks with Babylon…
The Archaeological Site Nitzana
Nessana, Modern Hebrew name Nizzana, also spelled Nitzana, is an ancient Nabataean city located in the southwest Negev desert in Israel close to the Egyptian border. It started by…
Fortress/citadel in Israel (3)
Herodion National Park
Herodium was originally built by Herod to commemorate his victory in 40 BCE over the Hasmonean ruler Antigonus II Mattathias during their struggle for control of Judaea. The site…
Masada National Park
Masada is a mountain-top fortress complex in the Judaean Desert, overlooking the western shore of the Dead Sea in southeastern Israel. The fort, built in the first century BC, was…
Tower of David
The Tower of David, also known as the Citadel, is an ancient citadel and contemporary museum, located near the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem. The citadel that…
Necropolis/tombs complex in Israel (3)
Absalom's Tomb
The so-called "Tomb of Absalom" is not only a burial structure in its own right, with its upper part serving as a nefesh (funeral monument) for the tomb in its lower part, but it…
Bet She'arim National Park
A vast Jewish necropolis southeast of Haifa, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015. Developed from the 2nd century AD as the primary Jewish burial place outside…
Tombs of the Kings
The Tombs of the Kings are a rock-cut funerary complex in East Jerusalem believed to be the burial site of Queen Helene of Adiabene (died c. 50–56 CE). More recent research by…
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