The Philistines
The Ancients
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The Urban Layout of Gaff at Telesafee
Gaff at Telesafee was excavated by a British expedition in 1899. After their excavation for close to 100 years, nobody touched the site. The predominant finds on surface were iron age and bronze age pottery. When you excavate in the lower city, immediately on or immediately below surface, you have the iron to a 30 BCE destruction level right there. And which is astounding because it gives us this extensive exposure of an iron age city.
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