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Multi-periodSite Name: Tel Achziv
Country: Israel Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Acre
Latitude: 33.049501N  Longitude: 35.101028E
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1Completely destroyed
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3Ordinary
2Not Good
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Tel Achziv
Tel Achziv submitted by Creative Commons : On the right: Cypro-Phoenician jug pottery, Iron age IIA 10th century BCE from Tel Shikmona. On the left Phoenician jug – Achziv, Iron age IIB 8th century BCE from Tel Shikmona Exhibits in the National Maritime Museum, Israel Creative Commons photo by Hanay (Vote or comment on this photo)
An ancient harbour town dating from the Chalcolithic Age (4500 - 3200 BCE), becoming a major Phoenician port in the 1st millennium BCE and still in use into Hellenistic and Roman times.

Note: Archaeologists excavate ancient Phoenician port city
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Tel Achziv
Tel Achziv submitted by motist : Tel Achziv (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient Phoenician Port City by davidmorgan on Sunday, 08 April 2012
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The ruins of the site rest atop a sandstone hill, hugging the far northern coast of the current State of Israel near the border with Lebanon. One can see later-period standing structures that provide the backdrop for what is now a national park and beach resort. But below the surface, and beneath the ocean waves, lie the remains of an ancient harbor town that reach back in history to as long ago as Chalcolithic times (4500 - 3200 BC). After decades, a team of archaeologists will return to the site to investigate evidence of a settlement that played a chief role in the ancient commerce of the area and the civilizations that crossed and controlled its strategic location.

Known today as Tel Achziv, its remnants have been explored and excavated before, by Moshe Prausnitz from 1963 through 1964 and, in the vicinity of the site, by E. Ben-Dor, M. Prausnitz and E. Mazar, who uncovered large-scale Phoenician cemeteries. Anciently, it was a fortified Canaanite harbor city protected by a massive rampart, rising to prominence as a major Phoenician port for maritime commerce, connected to a coastal road for trade. The city flourished under the Phoenicians during the ninth century, was conquered by King Sennacherib of Assyria at the end of the eighth century, and continued to function as an important port city during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The city was mentioned in the writings of Josephus Flavius, who referred to it as the place where Herod's brother was captured, and was also referrenced by Plinius (23-79AD) and appears in the Claudius Ptolemy World map (~150AD). It functioned later as an administrative center during Crusader times.

Now, a team of archaeologists, students and volunteers under the directorship of Dr. Gwyn Davies of Florida International University and Dr. Assaf Yasur-Landau of the University of Haifa will return to the site for inaugural excavations of unexplored remains, hoping to shed new light on an ancient city that in recent years has taken a back seat in the media to other coastal archaeological sites of the area. The evidence indicates a site of enormous additional archaeological potential.

"Among the project’s numerous goals," reports project management, "will be the excavation of a monumental Roman structure, possibly a coastal villa [that features evidence of an elaborate fish pond], the investigation of the city’s various harbor installations, and to begin probing the size and makeup of the site’s massive Middle Bronze Age rampart."[1] Efforts will include exploration of structures within the vicinity of what appears to be a man-made rock-cut channel on the coast below the Tel.
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2012/article/archaeologists-excavate-ancient-phoenician-port-city

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