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Tel Megiddo

Canaanite · Israel

Field notes

civilizations: Canaanite
types: City
built: 7,000 BCE
occupied: 7,000 BCE — 586 BCE
country: Israel

The site

Tel Megiddo rises as a layered mound at the western edge of Israel's Jezreel Valley, an important Canaanite city-state in the Bronze Age that later became a royal city of the Kingdom of Israel. Set at the crossroads of ancient trade routes, it guards impressive fortifications, palaces, temples, and a sophisticated water system. Twenty strata of ruins record continuous settlement, and its Greek name, Armageddon, echoes through Revelation.

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