Greek pottery at the site may be proof of mercenaries in the Egyptian army.Credit: Megiddo Expedition, Sasha Flit
Greek pottery at the site may be proof of mercenaries in the Egyptian army.Credit: Megiddo Expedition, Sasha Flit
Pharaoh Necho of Egypt,
I’ll be convinced if they find some wafers...
Are they suggesting that the Battle of Armageddon already happened thousands of years ago?
I have actually visited this town which is roped off everywhere and just a historic park of sorts. There is a trail going around the area.
I do remember a plaque sign that stated one place was a building for holding the 50 Calvary horses in King Soloman’s time.
My son and I were the only people there. We spent several hours.
At the opening or front of the town, overlooking the plains, there was a round circle where the synagogue was located - literally a pass thru into the town. I went down to the cicrcle hill and said a prayer for the United States and for Israel.
We took some pictures but they are lost now. I remember the map of the town and all the building locations identified.
There was lots of inch square mosaic stone inlays lying around the place and pottery. It is the same at all the old abandoned town sites in Israel.
The Boy Scout Troop leader was assigned to the Defense Attache’ and he got clearance to take the scout troop thru a mine field, literally on a three foot path, and we went into a place across the pond from Galilea. It was a cool place. It had trenches and that was used from 47-67 as Israel’s forward defensive position from the Syrians. They shelled it everyday for 20 years until Israel won the 67 war. They build a barracks and some other buildings no longer in use after 67. The main point of the town for me was the water cistern was a huge walk down into structure adjacent to the Sea of G. Also, there were 7 columns, four were from Egypt and 3 were from Greece. Some were white, grey and the red ones seemed so out of place. Also, in this particular town there was a 3x4 foot tablet where a church had once been located and it was covered in burlap. We peeked inside it and took pictures of the two crosses, one on each side, each for a different period of Christanity. I believe that the towns were abadoned in 237 AD or something like because of an earthquake in the area. I still remember that with an entire Boy Scout troop zig zaging an actual mine field, we no incidents with the boys, and it was not stressful. We even saw mines that were identifed and disarmed within arms reach... Israel doesn’t actually want people to wreck the dig sites because it is a source of revenue and income from colleges who come for two weeks a year. The reason it is two weeks a year is so that it will take forever to complete the excavations;)
"Adding another layer of intrigue...dated to between 630 and 610 BCE BC."
FIFY
