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March 25, 2019

A New Discovery May Solve a Mystery about Israel in the 7th Century BCE

Thanks to the new Beit Shemesh highway.

In 701 BCE—according to both the Bible and other ancient sources—the Assyrian king Sennacherib invaded the kingdom of Judah and laid waste to dozens of cities. Among these, it appears, was Beit Shemesh, which archaeologists long assumed was subsequently abandoned. But, in the course of a salvage excavation in preparation for the construction of a new highway through the modern city of Beit Shemesh, the archaeologist Yehuda Govrin has uncovered a vast ruin dating to the 7th century BCE, lying to the east of the ruins of the fortified ancient city. Amanda Borschel-Dan writes:

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March 25, 2019

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  2. The Democratic Party’s New Apologists for Anti-Semitism

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  4. A New Discovery May Solve a Mystery about Israel in the 7th Century BCE

    Thanks to the new Beit Shemesh highway.

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    Warder Cresson/ Michael Boaz Israel ben Avraham.