Israel: Biblical City Ruins Discovered UNDER Ruins Of Another Ancient City

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"We had no evidence that Gezer was a walled city. Naturally a walled city implies that the city is more robust and powerful than an unwalled city."

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By Meredith Bennett-Smith | November 21, 2013

An ongoing excavation in Israel has uncovered new evidence of an ancient city buried beneath the King Solomon-era metropolis of Gezer.

An international group of archaeologists has been working together for several years on the dig, located between modern-day Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, according to a statement released by the Israel antiquities Authority (IAA). An important historical city in its own right, Gezer is mentioned in both the Old Testament and in Egyptian historical accounts as a stop on the highway connecting ancient Egypt and Mesopotami.

This summer researchers unexpectedly had a breakthrough while examining a known part of the city dating back to the 10th century B.C., reports Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Led by Steven Ortiz of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and Samuel Wolff of the Israel Antiquities Authority, the team discovered traces of a walled city beneath those 10th-century ruins. The newly discovered remnants appeared to have been occupied 200 years earlier, during the Iron Age I period (between 1,200 and 1,000 B.C.), per a statement from the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

"We had no evidence that Gezer was a walled city," Ortiz told The Huffington Post in an email. "Naturally a walled city implies that the city is more robust and powerful than an unwalled city. [Our discovery] is causing us to reinterpret the history and importance of the site in the Iron Age I. This city would be a major Canaanite city."

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