Tel Arad or Tell 'Arad is an archaeological site consisting of a lower section and a tell or mound. It is located west of the Dead Sea, about 10 kilometres west of the Israeli city of Arad in an area
Aerial view of the 9th-century BCE Israelite fortress
Ceramic model of a house of the broadroom "Arad house" type, Tel Arad, c. 3,000–2,650 BCE. Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Stratum X gate of Arad Fortress
Holy of Holies of temple, with two incense pillars and two stele, one dedicated to Yahweh, and one most likely to Asherah
The Negev or Naqab is the name for a desert and semidesert area in southern Israel. Today, it forms the bulk of the Southern District of Israel, whose largest city and administrative capital is Beersh
Tel Arad
…the northern edge of the southern Israeli Beersheba–Arad Valley, defined by scholars as "the eastern (biblical) Negev", the Hebrew Bible using the term Negev only for the northern part of the region known today by that name. This east-west oriented valley was a convenient route for caravans during periods…
The Zin Valley and Nahal Havarim, near Midreshet Ben-Gurion
Of the three Acacia species growing in high plateau of the Negev, Acacia pachyceras is the most cold-resistant.