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Archaeological Excavations and Research Studies in Southern Israel / ______ _______ ____________ _____ ____, Collected Papers Volume 5: 18th Annual Southern Conference / ____ ______ ___ _': ___ ____ _-_"_

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Archaeological Excavations and Research Studies in Southern Israel / ______ _______ ____________ _____ ____, Collected Papers Volume 5: 18th Annual Southern Conference / ____ ______ ___ _': ___ ____ _-_"_

Author

Daniel Varga ; Amir Golani ; Michal Birkenfeld ; Yana Tchekanovets

Year

2022

Publisher

Israel Antiquities Authority / ____ _______

Language

English

Pages

21

ISBN

978-9-65406-755-3

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Last Update

05-Nov-2024

Keywords

Archaeology

Description

During the late fourth millennium BCE, the ties between the societies of the southwestern Levant and Egypt tightened considerably. The height of these relations was manifested by Egyptian communities settling throughout modernday Israel’s southern coastal plain and the distribution of Egyptian material culture farther afield. The establishment of Egyptian habitations in the southern Levant was large-scale at its outset. It included the foundation of a substantial, wholly Egyptian settlement at Tel es-Sakan, the import of Egyptian administration practices to ‘En Besor, and the crystallization of Egyptian communities in otherwise local sites, such as Tel ’Erani (for a recent summary, see...

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