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    by that name, known as Tel Lachish (Hebrew: תל לכיש) or Tell ed-Duweir (تل الدوير), has been identified with the biblical Lachish. Today, it is an Israeli...
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    certain point near the Tel Lachish digs. The descriptions shown in the reliefs were compared with those written about Lachish in the bible and found to...
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    The siege of Lachish was the Neo-Assyrian Empire's siege and conquest of the town of Lachish in 701 BCE. The siege is documented in several sources including...
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    The Lachish ewer is an ancient jug discovered at Tell el-Duweir dating from the late 13th century BC, identified as the site of the ancient city of Lachish...
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    The Lachish Letters are a series of letters written in carbon ink containing ancient Israelite inscriptions in Ancient Hebrew on clay ostraca. The letters...
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    LMLK seal (category Tel Lachish)
    "The Renewed Archaeological Excavations at Lachish." Mazar and Panitz-Cohen, Timnah (Tel Batash) II. Timnah (Tel Batash) II, the Finds from the First Millennium...
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    David Ussishkin (category Tel Lachish)
    Between the years 1973 and 1994 he administered the excavation project of Tel Lachish. This is a site of major importance to the Archaeology of Israel. It...
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    historical sources from Assyria and Egypt. Some notable examples are ancient Tel Lachish in Israel and Buhen in Egypt. Curtain walls were built across Europe...
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    Eliakim, son of Hilkiah (category Tel Lachish)
    discovered a reference to Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, in two bullae unearthed at Tel Lachish. He described the seal legends as reading "Eliakim, (son of) Yehozarah"...
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    the west coast of Asia Minor (Miletus, Troy), and in the Levant (Tel Haror, Tel Lachish). The first comprehensive compendium of Linear A inscriptions (sometimes...
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