Ashkelon - Sport in Ashkelon, Red Color, Ashkelon Academic College, Ironi Ashkelon, Daret Boyd Arena, Barzilai Medical Center (Paperback)

Chapters: Sport in Ashkelon, Red Color, Ashkelon Academic College, Ironi Ashkelon, Daret Boyd Arena, Barzilai Medical Center. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ashkelon - Ashqelon as mentioned on Merneptah Stele: iskeluni-(using hieroglyphs n, and two-determ.) Battle of Ascalon, 1099 An ancient sarcophagus in AshkelonAshkelon was the oldest and largest seaport in Canaan, one of the "five cities" of the Philistines, north of Gaza and south of Jaffa (Yafa). Archaeological excavations begun in 1985 led by Lawrence Stager of Harvard University are revealing the site with about 50 feet (15 m) of accumulated rubble from successive Canaanite, Philistine, Phoenician, Iranian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, and Crusader occupation. Location of Ashkelon within IsraelIn the oldest layers are shaft graves of pre-Phoenician Canaanites. The city was originally built on a sandstone outcropping and has a good underground water supply. It was relatively large as an ancient city with as many as 15,000 people living inside walls a mile and a half (2.4 km) long, 50 feet (15 m) high and 150 feet (50 m) thick. Ashkelon was a thriving Middle Bronze Age (20001550 BCE) city of more than 150 acres (61 ha), with commanding ramparts including the oldest arched city gate in the world, eight feet wide, and even as a ruin still standing two stories high. The thickness of the walls was so great that the mudbrick Bronze Age gate had a stone-lined tunnel-like barrel vault, coated with white plaster, to support the superstructure: it is the oldest such vault ever found. The Bronze Age ramparts were so capacious that later Roman and Islamic fortifications, faced with stone, followed the same footprint, a vast semicircle protecting Ashkelon on the landward side. On the sea ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=55386