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Roman, Greek and ClassicalSite Name: Tel Kabri
Country: Israel
NOTE: This site is 4.423 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Palace

Latitude: 33.007240N  Longitude: 35.137154E
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Tel Kabri
Tel Kabri submitted by dodomad : Eat, drink, and be merry: Ancient residents of Western Galilee held banquets for over 500 people Photo credit: Professor Eric Cline Site in Israel (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Palace in Israel. During the Middle Bronze Age II period (ca. 1750-1600 B.C.), Tel Kabri, located in the western Galilee was a thriving centre, with economic and cultural connections to Egypt, Cyprus, and the Aegean.

Tel Kabri was discovered in the 1950s when members of Kibbutz Kabri found Late Neolithic stone implements on the surface near the ‘Ein Giah spring. At that time D. Alon and D. Rosoliyo of the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums identified the Middle Bronze Age rampart and a tower on its northern stretch.

More details at Tel Aviv University. there is also a blog of the current excavations at http://digkabri.wordpress.com.

Note: 3600 year-old wine cellar found in Galilee
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3,600-year-old wine cellar found in Galilee by motist on Monday, 25 November 2013
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Archaeologists from the University of Haifa and two American universities have uncovered an ancient wine cellar at Tel Kabri in Western Galilee.

"This is a very important discovery," said Professor Eric Cline of George Washington University. "As far as we know, this is the largest and most ancient wine cellar in the ancient east."

Forty jugs were found with a total volume of 2,000 liters. This would be the equivalent of a modern wine cellar with 3,000 bottles.

The present season of excavations at Tel Kabri, led by Dr. Assaf Yasur-Landau, senior researcher at the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies at the University of Haifa, together with Professor Eric Cline of George Washington University and Dr. Andrew Koh from Brandeis University, has focused on the palace of the city's rulers, which was built about 3,850 years ago, in the Middle Bronze Age. The palace stood for at least 300 years and at one point covered an area of 6,000 square meters (1.5 acres) and was at least two stories high.


In previous seasons, said Dr. Yasur-Landau, the excavators discovered a massive banquet hall with residue from feasts of meat for over 500 people. Each guest enjoyed cuts of meat that weighed more than 500 grams (1.1 pounds). Now, it appears, he and his colleagues have found the massive wine collection that allowed banqueters to wash down all that meat.


Archaeologists found a storage room about of 15 square meters (160 square feet) next to the banquet hall. At first, they uncovered a single jug that was about a meter high. The more they dug, they more jugs they found until they discovered that the room had contained no less than 40 jugs with a total volume of 2,000 liters (530 gallons).

The archaeologists say their next step is to try to reconstruct the recipe and replicate the 3,600-year-old wine.

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http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=13547
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Remains of a Minoan-style painting discovered during excavations by Andy B on Wednesday, 16 December 2009
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Remains of a Minoan-style painting discovered during excavations of the Canaanite palace at Tel Kabri.

The remains of a Minoan-style wall painting, characterized by a blue background, the first of its kind to be found in Israel, was discovered in the course of the recent excavation season at Tel Kabri. This fresco joins others of Aegean style that have been uncovered during earlier seasons at the Canaanite palace in Kabri. “It was, without doubt, a conscious decision made by the city’s rulers who wished to associate with Mediterranean culture and not adopt Syrian and Mesopotamian styles of art like other cities in Canaan did. The Canaanites were living in the Levant and wanted to feel European,” explains Dr. Assaf Yasur-Landau of the University of Haifa, who directed the excavations.

The remains of a Canaanite city from the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 B.C.) have been exposed at Tel Kabri, next to Kibbutz Kabri near Nahariya. A palace for the city’s rulers stands in the center of the city, which was the most important of the cities in the Western Galilee during that period. Excavations began at Tel Kabri in 1986, conducted by the late Prof. Aharon Kempinski, and were halted in 1993. Over the past years, excavations have been renewed by teams directed by Dr. Yasur-Landau of the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies at the University of Haifa and Prof. Eric Cline of The George Washington University. Tel Kabri is unique in that after the city was deserted, no other city was built over its remains. Therefore, this is the only Canaanite city that can be excavated in its entirety. The palace too, which has been measured with geophysical tools at 1 to 1.5 acres, is the only such palace of this period that can be excavated fully. “The city’s preservation enables us to get a complete picture of political and social life in the Canaanite period. We can reveal whether or not it had a central government, whether taxes were levied, what sort of agriculture there was and how politics were conducted at the time,” Dr. Yasur-Landau explains.

The recent excavation season has enabled researchers to conclude what the rulers’ cultural preferences were. While excavations at Tel Hazor in the northern Galilee, the largest Canaanite city of that period, revealed numerous remains of sculpture works of Syrian and Mesopotamian style, no such evidence of this style of artwork were discovered at Tel Kabri. Until now the remains of a fresco in a style that had been common on the island of Santorini (Thera), discovered during previous seasons at the Tel Kabri site, might have been considered a solitary occurrence. However, the remains of additional works reinforce the conjecture that this was a city that not only had trade relations with Mediterranean kingdoms, but also preferred to be culturally associated with them. “Unlike Hazor, which held trading and cultural ties with Syria and Mesopotamia, the rulers of the city at Tel Kabri consciously chose the Mediterranean alternative, relating to Aegean cultures, which doubtlessly seemed more exotic to the local inhabitants,” Dr. Yasur-Landau explains.

Additional findings during the past season illuminate other angles of day-to-day life in the Canaanite city. The researchers discovered that the rulers confiscated privately owned lands in order to build both the palace and a ceremonial path encircling the palace. The researchers also began digging a corridor that had been discovered last year and found tens of pottery vessels there, such as storage jars, shallow bowls, cups, and jugs. The corridor, which probably served as a storage area, was blocked off by the ancient inhabitants, and therefore remnants of the substances held in these pottery vessels still remains, as did many animal bones. “We sent the bones and substance remains to be examined, so we should soon be able to know more about the standard diet of that time and in this particular area,” Dr. Yasur-Landau added.

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