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<< Text Pages >> Tel El-Hesi - Ancient Village or Settlement in Israel

Submitted by motist on Monday, 02 August 2010  Page Views: 8771

Multi-periodSite Name: Tel El-Hesi
Country: Israel
NOTE: This site is 13.173 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kiryat Gat  Nearest Village: Eitan
Latitude: 31.547820N  Longitude: 34.730530E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
2 Access:
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
0No data.
1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Israel

Tell el-Hesi is an important archaeological site situated midway along the Wadi Hesi (an important east-west transit route) in present-day Israel.

The military importance of the site is clear, representing one of the three most strategically vital positions in controlling access along and between the southern coastal plain and the Shephelah

Tell el-Hesi (Hebrew: תל חסי‎) is an archaeological site in Israel. It was the first major site excavated in Palestine, first by Flinders Petrie in 1890 and later by Frederick Jones Bliss in 1891 and 1892, both sponsored by the Palestine Exploration Fund. Petrie's excavations were one of the first to systematically use stratigraphy and seriation to produce a chronology of the site. While Petrie and Bliss believed that Tell el-Hesi was the Biblical site of Lachish, this hypothesis is no longer accepted. Tell el-Hesi is located southwest of the modern Israeli city of Qiryat Gat, at point 12451063 of the Israel grid, or at 34 degrees 43 minutes 50 seconds east longitude and 31 degrees 43 minutes and 45 seconds north latitude.

The site was originally excavated between 1890 and 1892 by the Palestine Exploration Fund in a series of five campaigns directed first by William Matthew Flinders Petrie and then by Frederick Jones Bliss. They published their final reports in 1891 and 1894.

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Tel El-Hesi submitted by durhamnature : Old photo from the early excavations, from "Archaeology of the Holy Land" via archive.org Site in Israel (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Tel El-Hesi by motist on Monday, 02 August 2010
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