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Multi-periodSite Name: MegiddoCountry: Israel
NOTE: This site is 1.151 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Afula Nearest Village: Kibuts Megiddo
Latitude: 32.585353N Longitude: 35.184659E
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3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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Ancient Cannanite hilltop settlement in Norther israel inhabited from Neolithic to about 700 BCE
At the beginning of the third millennium BCE, Megiddo was already a fortified city with huge walls, and 1,000 years later it became a center of Egyptian rule over Canaan. Strategically, it was invaluable: It controlled the end of the Iron Valley in the heart of the ancient Via Maris (the Way of the Sea), which linked Egypt and Damascus.
The Egyptian pharaoh Thutmoses III took Megiddo in 1468 BCE during his campaign to entrench Egypt’s power over the region. Megiddo was taken by the Israelites apparently only at the time of King David, and the city flourished during the time of King Solomon.
In 924 BCE, Pharaoh Shishak conquered Megiddo, but the city was rebuilt, and in Ahab’s time it became an important chariot city. In 732 BCE, the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III took the city. Later, King Josiah of Judah was killed there after facing off against Pharaoh Neco. The city was abandoned after the Persian period.
Megiddo is identified with Armageddon, the scene of the battle of the End of Days according to Revelation 16:14-21.
At the Megiddo Museum, visitors can see an audiovisual presentation and models of the site’s complex archaeology. On the mound, highlights include the Late Bronze Age gate (1500-1200 BCE), the palace; ‘Solomon’s Gate’; the panoramic northern lookout; the southern lookout with a shady area for pilgrims’ prayers; stables and the water system--testimony to the amazing abilities and initiative of its engineers.
The water system probably began as a reservoir in King Solomon’s day, when a path between parallel walls led to the spring outside the city walls. Later, apparently during Ahab’s time, a more complex system was built to conceal the spring and allow people to draw water without leaving the city walls.
The system includes a 25-meter-deep shaft to bedrock. At the bottom, a 70-meter-long, 3-meter-high tunnel was dug. The floor of the shaft was lower than the spring, allowing water to flow from the spring to the shaft, where people could draw their water. A wall was built to conceal the location of the spring.
Note: Early Bronze Age: Megiddo’s Great Temple and the Birth of Urban Culture in the Levant. See latest comment.
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