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Other Archaeological Sites / The Neolithic of the Levant (500 Page Book Online) McDonald Ancient Near East Book Auction Ad Infinitum Ancient Beth-Shan
Town in northeast Palestine 19 miles southeast of Nazareth. One of the oldest settlements in ancient Palestine - Beth-Shan shows evidence of having been inhabited in the fourth millennium BC. It has always been of importance because of its strategic location. King David took Beth-Shan from the Philistines. The Assyrians - Scythians - Ptolemies of Egypt and the Seleucids all held it in later years. After the conquest of Palestine by the Romans in 64 BC Beth-Shan was one of the 10 cities of the Decapolis - a confederation of Greek cities formed for protection against the Jews and Arabs ..... Other Online Links Beth-Shan (Immanuel Velikovsky) Beth Shan (Old Testament Studies) [Richard Abbott]
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