SEBASTIA, West Bank (AP) -- The ancient town of Sebastia is one of the major archaeological sites of the Holy Land, with its overlapping layers of history dating back nearly 3,000 years. But today the ...

Zertal, 60, has a poetic affinity for the land he has spent so much time surveying. Talking to local Bedouin shepherds in Arabic about place names and checking them against biblical references, he has ...

Prehistoric Chronological Framework / Ofer Bar-Yosef -- Introduction to the Second Edition / Kent V. Flannery -- I. Approaches to the Past. 1. Social Change and the Archaeology of the Holy Land / ...

"In the heart of the ancient Near East (modern Middle East) and at a crossroads between once mighty powers such as Assyria to the east and Egypt to the south is a tiny piece of land -- roughly the ...

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