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March 7, 2017

Massive Ancient Tombs Discovered in the Galilee Could Change Understandings of the Bronze-Age Near East

Four-millennia-old dolmens that dwarf Stonehenge.

Archaeologists working near Kibbutz Shamir in northern Israel recently excavated a large field of tombs, thought to be roughly 4,000 years old. Among them is a specific type of tomb, constructed from large stones stacked in a table-like formation, called a dolmen. The discovery of these dolmens suggests far greater social complexity than most scholars thought existed in the region at the time. Ilan Ben Zion explains their significance:

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