referring to the temple's innermost sanctuary. "People were praying to them and bringing them tributes." Lachish was the second-most-important city in the region after Jerusalem, and it is noted ...

Temple at Tel Lachish / Courtesy of the Fourth Expedition to Lachish Of particular interest was a pottery sherd engraved with ancient Canaanite script. There, the letter “samekh” (ס ...

The sieges at Lachish and Jerusalem are mentioned frequently ... located north of the Temple Mount. The Palestine Exploration ...

A 2,000-year-old Second Temple-Period burial cave designated the Salome Cave—one of the most impressive burial caves discovered in the Israel—is being uncovered in the Lachish Forest.

A 2000-year-old Second Temple-era burial cave designated “Salome Cave,” one of the most impressive of its kind discovered in Israel is being uncovered at Lachish Forest, some 50 miles ...

THE interesting collection of antiquities from Tell Duweir, the ancient Lachish, in Palestine ... Excavation of the Bronze Age temple has now been completed down to bed rock, two pieces of ...

Since the 1930s, the Lachish site has yielded a dozen or so ... an Iron Age palace-fort, an Acropolis Temple from the Late Bronze Age, and a Middle Bronze palace. The comb measures just 3.5 ...

Lachish park hikers found a potshard, thinking it was a prank. Archaeologists were also misled, identifying it as a “receipt,” photos show. Photo from the Israel Antiquities Authority UPDATE ...