Gibeon (ancient city)
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Gibeon was a Canaanite and later an Israelite city, which was located north of Jerusalem. According to Joshua 11:19, the pre-Israelite-conquest inhabitants, the Gibeonites, were Hivites; according to 2 Samuel 21:2, they were Amorites. The remains of Gibeon are located in the southern portion of the Palestinian village of al-Jib.
oil press cave
Gibeon well
The spring water at Gibeon
Rock-cut 2 meter deep wine cellars
Amorites
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The Amorites were an ancient Northwest Semitic-speaking Bronze Age people from the Levant. Initially appearing in Sumerian records c. 2500 BC, they expanded and ruled most of the Levant, Mesopotamia and parts of Egypt from the 21st century BC to the late 17th century BC.
Cuneiform clay tablets from the Amorite Kingdom of Mari, 1st half of the 2nd millennium BC.
Artifacts from Amorite Kingdom of Mari, first half of 2nd millennium BC
One of the Ramesses III prisoner tiles, which is speculated by some scholars to represent an Amorite man.
Destruction of the Army of the Amorites by Gustave Doré.