Fortress from biblical judges period discovered near Kiryat Gat
Posted on 08/25/2020 12:50:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A Canaanite fortress from the middle of the 12th century BCE (the days of the biblical judges), was unearthed in an excavation of the Israel Antiquities Authority and volunteer youths near Kibbutz Galon outside Kiryat Gat,some 50 miles south of Tel Aviv.
The size of the fortress is 60 by 60 ft. and it includes towers at the four corners. A huge threshold was preserved at the entrance to the structure, hewn from a single stone weighing about 3 tons.
Inside the citadel was a courtyard paved with stone slabs which had pillars in the center. Rooms were arranged on either side of the courtyard. Hundreds of pottery vessels, some of them intact, including special vessels such as a bowl and a cup, which were probably used for worship, and a large number of bowls, were exposed in the fort's rooms. Some of the bowls were made in a style that imitated Egyptian bowls...
Ganor Weisbein added that "the stories of the judges in the Bible clearly illustrate the complex geopolitical reality and the struggle for territorial control, during the realignment of the political forces in the Land of Israel. The layout of the citadel is known from other sites which were excavated in the country, and identified as Egyptian 'governor's houses.' The fortress was built in a strategic location, from which it was possible to view the main road that passed along Nahal Guvrin - a road that connected the coastal plain to the Judaean plain."
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishpress.com ...
Possilby one of *those* topics.
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Very cool.
Reportedly, it featured a huge painting of a horrifying creature called The Beast, which looked exactly like Hillary Clinton.
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Not particularly huge, but a strong point from which power extends in an age when people only had ‘pointed sticks’.
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The Jerusalem Post offer a bit of a different view.
That would explain its abandonment...
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