Et-Tell
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Et-Tell () or Khirbet et-Tell (also meaning "heap of ruins") is an archaeological site in the West Bank in Palestine. The site is commonly identified with the biblical city of Ai.
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Location
- Settlement phases
- Early Bronze I
- Early Bronze II (2950/2860–2720 BC)
- Transitional EB II–III Hiatus (c. 2720–2700/2680 BC)
- Early Bronze III
- Hiatus (2400–1200 BC)
- Iron Age I
- Excavation history
- Comparisons with biblical Ai
- References
- General references
- Bibliography
- External links
Et-Tell () or Khirbet et-Tell (also meaning "heap of ruins") is an archaeological site in the West Bank in Palestine. The site is commonly identified with the biblical city of Ai.
==Location== The site of et-Tell is just beside the modern village of Deir Dibwan and about 3 km east of Beitin (ancient Bethel), atop a watershed plateau overlooking the Jordan Valley and the city of Jericho 14 km east.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Et-Tell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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