Canaanite Arad covered an area of about 25 acres and had an estimated population of 2,500. The city was surrounded by a fortified wall, some 1,200 m. long and 2.4 m. thick, with many semi-circular or rectangular towers projecting from it.

The Israelite fortress at Arad is unique in the Land of Israel. It’s the only site excavated with modern archaeological methods that contains a continuous archaeological record from the period of the Judges (c. 1200 B.C.) to the Babylonian destruction of the First Temple (580 B.C.). This distinction promises to make Arad the type-site for ...

City walls . City gate . Temple . Palace . City Well . Homes . 2. Entrance to Tel Arad . 3. Upper parking – Easy access to the Fortress Mound ... The King of Arad attacked Israel while they were making their way toward the Promised Land. Numbers 21:1–3: When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb, heard that Israel was ...

Arad (Hebrew: ערד (audio) ⓘ) is a city in the Southern District of Israel.It is located on the border of the Negev and the Judean Deserts, 25 kilometres (16 miles) west of the Dead Sea and 45 kilometres (28 miles) east of Beersheba.The city is home to a diverse population of 28,170, [1] including Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews (both secular and religious), Bedouins and Black Hebrews, as well ...

Tel Arad (Hebrew: תל ערד) or Tell 'Arad (Arabic: تل عراد, romanized: Tall ʿArād) is an archaeological tell, or mound, located west of the Dead Sea, about 10 kilometres (6 miles) west of the modern Israeli city of Arad in an area surrounded by mountain ridges which is known as the Arad Plain. The site is about 10.1 ha (25 acres). The lower Canaanite settlement and the upper ...

Early Bronze City. Arad was 30 acres (12 ha) in size in the Early Bronze period (3000–2300 BC) and never reached this size again. ... but nowhere more than here. The features include a broad-room style house, benches lining the walls, a stone pillar base in the center to support the roof, and a door socket on the left-hand side of the ...

The 25 acre [10 ha.] site of Early Bronze Age Arad is located 18.5 mi. [30 km.] east-northeast of Beersheba. Ruth Amiran spent 18 seasons excavating the Early Bronze Age city. Four distinct EB levels (strata) have been discovered. The high point of occupation was around 2800 B.C. — some 800 to 1000 years prior to Abraham's arrival in Canaan.

Approaching the Gates of the Upper City of Arad : In the Bible: Numbers 21:1-3, Arad was a Canaanite stronghold that prevented Israel from moving north. The king of Arad was defeated after he attacked Israel near the end of their 40 years in the wilderness. Israel destroyed the local cities and named the area Hormah or “destruction.”

040 Arad is actually a double site—a large and spacious 25-acre Canaanite city and a small, three-quarter-acre Israelite fortress. The ancient sites are situated on a bowl-shaped hill six miles from the attractive, modern, desert city of Arad in the Negev. ... (3200–2650 B.C.), the latter encircled by its distinctive city wall interrupted ...

2018年4月14日 · The city was protected by a 2.5m (8¼ feet) thick wall, 1,176m (3,858 ft) long, with semicircular towers along its length. A palace was also constructed on the western side of the city. The city was prosperous, as it was a center of trade and …