Tell el-Hesi
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Tell el-Hesi, or Tell el-Hesy, is a 10.1-hectare 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
Tell el-Hesi
Cross section through the mound, after Flinders Petrie
Tell el Hesy in the PEF Survey of Palestine, 1880
Tel Lachish
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Lachish was an ancient Canaanite and later Israelite city in the Shephelah region of Canaan on the south bank of the Lakhish River. The current tell by that name, known as Tel Lachish or Tell el-Duwei
Tell el-Hesi
…A military trench system was dug into the top of the mound during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Petrie identified Tell el-Hesi as the Biblical site of Lachish, and Bliss accepted this identification, but it is no longer accepted. In 1924 William F. Albright proposed that Tell el-Hesi was Biblical Eglon, an…
Main gate of Lachish
Commander's palace
Amarna letter EA 330. A letter from Shipti Ba'al (ruler of Lachish), who reassures the Egyptian pharaoh (Amenhotep III or his son Akhenaten) of his loyalty. 14th century BCE. From Tell el-Amarna, Egypt. British Museum
Assyrian siege ramp