September
12
/ 2020
A mystery concerning the destruction of an important Canaanite palace may have been solved. Experts now believe that an earthquake destroyed Tel Kabri in Israel over 3000 years ago. This site was significant in the history of Canaan, which was very influential on later peoples. Tel Kabri is in Western Galilee in Northern Israel and is a 75-acre site not far from a kibbutz. Today it is a massive artificial mound, also known as a Tel. This site was inhabited since the Stone Age and it was the ‘location of one of the largest palaces in Canaan in the Middle Bronze Age,’ according to the Ancient History Encyclopedia. The structure was built around 2000-1750 BC and was rebuilt and expanded
