Tel Hazor

Unearthed

• The Amarna lettersNamed outside the Biblec. 1360–1330 BC

  The towns of the conquest narratives were real city-states with named rulers, writing to Egypt in the century before Israel first appears in the record.

• The burning of HazorDisputed13th century BC

  Hazor was the largest Canaanite city in the region and was destroyed by fire in the Late Bronze Age, with its statues mutilated.

• Megiddo's gates and stablesDisputed10th–9th century BC

  Megiddo, Hazor and Gezer all carry monumental gates and fortifications from the early Iron Age.

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