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
Palestine Exploration Fund
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The Palestine Exploration Fund is a British society based in London. It was founded in 1865, shortly after the completion of the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem by Royal Engineers of the War Department.
Tell el-Hesi
…first major site excavated in Palestine, first by Flinders Petrie in 1890 and later by Frederick Jones Bliss in 1891 and 1892, both sponsored by the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF). Petrie's excavations were one of the first to systematically use stratigraphy and seriation to produce a chronology of the site. Tell el-Hesi…
PEF rock: Mark on boulder used by the PEF as a reference level (datum) for surveying the Dead Sea in the beginning of the 20th century
Women grind grain with a hand mill, Palestine (1900)