Expedition to Beth Shean
Beth Shean was to be the first major excavation in the Near East after World War I. Work began with cutting into the medieval and classical strata of the tell’s high southern platform, which uncovered evidence of an Ummayadqasr-type (palace or mansion) walled enclosure, an unusual Byzantine round church, and seven Byzantine houses. Investigations expanded to include a necropolis and Byzantine monastery near the city’s northern edge, from which came many of the artifacts currently on display.
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Vol. XIV / No. 4
By: Clarence S. Fisher
Bethshean: Excavations of the University Museum Expedition, 1921-1923
Those who had an interest in history or archaeology realized to some extent its great strategic value in the constant […]
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Vol. XIV / No. 1
The Palestine Expedition: An Historical Inscription
Egypt between the years 1375 and 1315 B. c. passed through two revolutionary movements, a sweeping reformation and a sharp […]
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Vol. XIII / No. 1
By: Clarence S. Fisher
Beth-Shean
THE Beth-shean of Scripture, called Scythopolis by the Greeks and now the little village of Beisan, has been an object […]
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