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Centered on archaeological sites that relate to the Old Testament period. In practice this most often means the Iron Age. Arad - Canaanite city and Israelite fortress with a temple, Beersheva - city in the Negev, with the "patriarchs well", Carmel - Israel's fertile hill, Gezer - the city in the Shephelah that Pharoah gave Solomon as a wedding gift; Hazor - the richest city in Canaanite Galilee; Lachish - protecting Jerusalem from the South; Megiddo - Har Megiddo or Armageddon strategic city in Solomon's empire
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