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Vol. 2 / No. 1
By: James B. Pritchard
The Wine Industry at Gibeon: 1959 Discoveries
In a Near Eastern country such as Jordan an archaeologist learns quickly that it is usually best to discount, if […]
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Vol. 3 / No. 4
By: James B. Pritchard
The Bible Reports on Gibeon
A new dimension was added to the archaeological remains at el-Jib by the discovery in 1956 of a handle from […]
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Vol. 5 / No. 1
By: James B. Pritchard
Civil Defense at Gibeon: "Gibeon was a great city...and all its men were mighty" - Joshua 10:2
Defense was the most important single consideration in the planning and building of a city in Biblical Palestine, a land […]
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Vol. 6 / No. 2
By: James B. Pritchard
Reconnaissance in Jordan
“How do you go about finding a site for excavation?” is a question frequently put to an archaeologist. With the […]
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Vol. 6 / No. 4
By: James B. Pritchard
Two Tombs and a Tunnel in the Jordan Valley: Discoveries at the Biblical Zarethan
The cutting of the first trench into any large antiquity site is bound to be significant, especially if the mound […]
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Vol. 7 / No. 4
By: James B. Pritchard
A Cosmopolitan Culture of the Late Bronze Age
Surely them ost surprising and possibly the most significant result achieved from two seasons of digging at Tell es-Sa’idiyeh was […]
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Vol. 10 / No. 2
By: James B. Pritchard
An Eighth Century Traveller
One of the most intriguing artifacts discovered in four seasons of excavation at Tell es-Sa’idiyeh in Jordan is the small […]
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Vol. 11 / No. 1
By: James B. Pritchard
The Palace of Tell es-Sa’idiyeh
Since we began to excavate at Tell es-Sa’idiyeh in 1964 not a season has gone by without our gaining some […]
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By: James B. Pritchard
The Phoenicians in Their Homeland
The Phoenician expansion westward for three thousand miles across the Mediterranean and beyond to the shores of the Atlantic was […]
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