Tel Abel Beth Maacah is a large archaeological tell with a small upper northern section and a large lower southern one, connected by a saddle. It is located on the northern border of present-day Israe
Tel Abel Beth Maacah, picture taken from the road in 1945
The ring flask from Area A (survey)
The Arab village of Abil el-Qameḥ on 1945 aerial photo, with current excavation areas marked on it
The rampart layers, capped by small-medium stones, looking north; Iron I pits and stone silos cut into the layers
The Hula Valley is a topographic depression forming a valley and fertile agricultural region in northern Israel with abundant fresh water that used to be part covered by marshland and Lake Hula. These
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…Waterfall, fed by the Iyyon, is located just north of the site. From its strategic vantage point overlooking the narrow northern end of the fertile Hula Valley, the site commands roads leading north to the Lebanese Beqaa Valley, northeast to inland Syria (Damascus) and Mesopotamia, and west to the Lebanese/Phoenician…
A wheat field in the Hula Valley, against the background of Mount Hermon, March 2007
Palestine Post article explaining the history of the Huleh Concession, 12 August 1937