Archaeological discoveries in the Holy Land / Archaeological Institute of America.
Since the momentous discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1948, the pace of archaeological exploration and escavation has quickened throughout the Holy Land. The present volume is a record of the accomplishments of these significant years.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / James B. Pritchard
- Archaeological Periods of the Holy Land. Before the Bible. The dawn of history in southern Palestine / Jean Perrot
- Beidha : an early neolithic village in Jordan / Diana Kirkbride
- Jericho : oldest walled town / Kathleen M. Kenyon
- The Cave of Treasure / Pessah Bar-Adon
- The cemetery at Bab edh-Dhraʹ, Jordan / Paul W. Lapp
- A Canaanite-Hyksos city at Tell Nagila / Ruth Amiran and A. Eitan
- Rock engravings in the central Negev / Emmanuel Anati. Biblical cities and temples. The rise and fall of Hazor / Yigael Yadin
- Excavations at the Oasis of Engedi / Benjamin Mazar
- The Citadel of Ramat Rahel / Yohanan Aharoni
- Arad : an early Bronze Age city and a Biblical citadel / Ruth Amiran and Yohanan Aharoni
- A reconstruction of Solomon's Temple / Paul Leslie Garber
- Jaffa's history revealed by the spade / J. Kaplan
- Six campaigns at Biblical Shechem / James F. Ross and Lawrence E. Toombs
- Ashdod : a city of the Philistine Pentapolis / Moshe Dothan
- Gibeon : where the sun stood still / James B. Pritchard. Post-Biblical Palestine. The Nabataeans in Petra / Crystal M. Bennett
- The scrolls from the Judaean Desert / Frank M. Cross, Jr.
- Masada : a zealot fortress / Yigael Yadin
- The Necropolis of Beth Sheʹarim / N. Avigad
- Castles in Zin / Harris Dunscombe Colt
- The Umayyad Palace of Khirbat al-Mafjar / Oleg Grabar
- The Hospice of the Knights of St. John in Akko / Zeev Goldmann.