Tel Kabri

Tel Kabri is an archaeological site on the grounds of Kibbutz Kabri , near the city of Nahariya in Israel. It is notable for its Minoan -style frescoes, the only such frescoes ever discovered in Israel. The area of Kabri was first settled 16,000 years ago, during the Neolithic period . Permanent structures appeared around the year 10000 BCE. The tell contains the remains of a Canaanite city from the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 B.C.). The city, the most important of the cities in the Western Galilee during that period, had a palace at its center. Tel Kabri is the only Canaanite city that can be excavated in its entirety because after the city was abandoned, no other city was built over its remains. The palace, which occupies 1 to 1.5 acres, is also the only Canaanite palace of this period that can be excavated fully. Assaf Yasur-Landau , "The city's preservation enables us to get a complete picture of political and social life in the Canaanite period. We can reveal whether or not it had a central government, whether taxes were levied, what sort of agriculture there was and how politics were conducted at the time." Excavations began at Tel Kabri in 1986, under the direction of the late Prof. Aharon Kempinski , but halted in 1993. More recently, renewed excavations have taken place since 2005 by an international team co-directed by Dr.

Hebrew text Arabic text Tel Kabri ( ; , Tell al-Qahweh, "the mound of coffee" ) is an archaeological site, home to one of the largest Middle Bronze (MB) Age (2,100–1,550 BC) Canaanite palaces in ancient Israel, and the largest such palace excavated as of 2014. Kabri is named for the abundance of its perennial springs —as described in the Etymology section below—the presence of which has led to the site's occupation and use as a water source from the Pottery Neolithic (PN) period (6,400–4,500 BC) to the present day. Located in the Western Upper Galilee , the site was at the height of its power in the MB, controlling much of the surrounding region. Kabri declined as a local power at the end of the MB, but the site continued to be occupied at times, on a much reduced level, up until the 1948 Arab-Israeli War . Since 1957, Tel Kabri has been excavated by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), formerly the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums (IDAM), as well as Israeli and American universities. Among the discoveries at the site by the two full-scale archaeological expeditions, two have attracted particular attention from the archaeological community. The first finding to come to international attention was the discovery of Minoan -style frescoes in the palace at Kabri. As of 2015 , these are the only Minoan-style frescoes ever discovered in Israel. Second, in 2013, the Tel Kabri Archaeological Project uncovered the oldest and largest known palatial wine cellar in the Ancient Near East in Kabri's palace. There are <ref group=nb> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ).

Tell containing one of the largest Middle Bronze Age Canaanite palaces in ancient Palestine This article contains Hebrew text . Without proper rendering support , you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Tel Kabri ( ; , Tell al-Qahweh, "the mound of coffee" ) is an archaeological site of a tell (hill city), containing one of the largest Middle Bronze (MB) Age (2,100–1,550 BC) Canaanite palaces in Israel , and the largest such palace excavated as of 2014. Kabri is named for the abundance of its perennial springs – as described in the Etymology section below – the presence of which has led to the site's occupation and use as a water source from the Pottery Neolithic (PN) period (6,400–4,500 BC) to the present day. Located in the Western Upper Galilee , the site was at the height of its power in the MB, controlling much of the surrounding region. Kabri declined as a local power at the end of the MB, but the site continued to be occupied at times, on a much reduced level, up until the 1948 Arab-Israeli War . Since 1957, Tel Kabri has been excavated by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), formerly the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums (IDAM), as well as Israeli and American universities. Among the discoveries at the site by the two full-scale archaeological expeditions, two have attracted particular attention from the archaeological community. The first finding to come to international attention was the discovery of Minoan -style frescoes in the palace at Kabri. As of 2015 , these are the only Minoan-style frescoes ever discovered in Israel. Second, in 2013, the Tel Kabri Archaeological Project uncovered the oldest and largest known palatial wine cellar in the Ancient Near East in Kabri's palace. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).

Archaeological tell in Israel containing a large Canaanite palace dated to the Middle Bronze Age This article is about the archaeological site of Tel Kabri. Without proper rendering support , you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Tel Kabri ( ), or Tell al-Qahweh ( ), is an archaeological tell (mound created by accumulation of remains) containing one of the largest Middle Bronze Age (2,100–1,550 BCE ) Canaanite palaces in Israel , and the largest such palace excavated as of 2014. Kabri is named for the abundance of its perennial springs the presence of which has led to the site's occupation and use as a water source from the Pottery Neolithic (PN) period (6,400–4,500 BCE) to the present day. Located in the Western Upper Galilee , the site was at the height of its power in the Middle Bronze, controlling much of the surrounding region. Kabri declined as a local power at the end of the Middle Bronze, but the site continued to be occupied at times, on a much reduced level, up until the 1948 Arab-Israeli War . Since 1957, Tel Kabri has been excavated by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), formerly the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums (IDAM), as well as Israeli and American universities. Among the discoveries at the site by the two full-scale archaeological expeditions, two have attracted particular attention from the archaeological community. The first finding to come to international attention was the discovery of Minoan -style frescoes in the palace at Kabri. As of 2015 , these are the only Minoan paintings ever discovered in Israel. Second, in 2013, the Tel Kabri Archaeological Project uncovered the oldest and largest known palatial wine cellar in the Ancient Near East in Kabri's palace. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).