Israel

Tell el-Hesi

A mound that changed how the Levant was read On the southern Levantine plain, Tell el-Hesi can look deceptively modest on a map: a rise of accumulated settlement near the fields southwest of Qiryat Gat. Its importance lies less in a standing monument than in the layers below it. Here, in 1890, William Matthew Flinders Petrie began an excavation that helped turn a collection of ancient objects into a sequence of human occupations. The Palestine…...