Archaeological sites in the West Bank

Qumran (; ; '''') is an archaeological site in the West Bank managed by Israel's Qumran National Park. It is located on a dry marl plateau about from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, about south of the historic city of Jericho, and adjacent to the modern Israeli settlement and kibbutz of Kalya.

mountain in Judea and Samaria Area, Palestine

thumb|The Byzantine Basilica of Emmaus Nicopolis (5th–7th cent.), restored by Crusaders during the 12th century Emmaus ( ; ; ; ) is a town mentioned in the Gospel of Luke of the New Testament. Luke reports that Jesus appeared, after his death and resurrection, before two of his disciples while they were walking on the road to Emmaus.

ancient city in the West Bank, Palestine

Shechem ( ; , ; ), also spelled Sichem ( ; in the Septuagint, ) and other variants, was an ancient city in the Southern Levant. Described in ancient Egyptian inscriptions from the 19th century BC as a part of Retjenu, it is also recorded as a Canaanite city in the 14th century BCE Amarna letters.

Biblical city

The Herodeion (), in Latin: Herodium, in Modern Herodion, known in Arabic as Jabal al-Fureidis () is a fortified desert palace built by Herod the Great, king of Judaea, in the first century BCE. The complex stands atop a hill in the Judaean Desert, approximately south of Jerusalem and southeast of Bethlehem, between Beit Ta'mir, Za'atara to the east and Jannatah, Tekoa and Nokdim to the west. The site is located at an elevation of 758 meters (2,487 ft) above sea level.

ancient fortress in Jerusalem

mountain in the immediate vicinity of the city of Nablus in the West Bank

ancient city north of Jerusalem mentioned in the Bible

archaeological site in Israel

Georgian language Byzantine mosaic

archaeological site in the West Bank

ancient Samarian town

archaeological site in the West Bank

thumb|Mount Sartaba, once topped by Alexandrium fortress

ancient reservoirs near Bethlehem, Palestine

biblical city and archaeological site

Mamre (; ), full name "Oaks of Mamre", refers to an ancient religious site originally focused on a single holy tree growing "since time immemorial" at Hebron in Canaan. It is best known from the biblical story of Abraham and the three visitors. He pitched his tents is known as the oak or terebinth of Mamre. Modern scholars have identified four sites near Hebron which, in different historical periods, could have been successively known as Mamre: Khirbet Nimra, also known as Ayn Nimreh, (a little excavated Persian and Hellenistic period site, a hypothetical identification, not proven by any arch

local development committee in Jerusalem Governorate

local Development Committee in Jericho Governorate and Muslim holy site

river in the West Bank

Last Judah's fort held in the Bar Kokhba's revolt and adjacent modern locations

cave and archaeological site in the West Bank

'''Ti'inik, also transliterated Ti’innik (), or Ta'anakh/Taanach''' (), is a Palestinian village, located 13 km northwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank.

site of an ancient Canaanite/Israelite city in the West Bank

Timnath-heres or Timnath-serah (), later Thamna, was the town given by the Israelites to Joshua according to the Hebrew Bible. He requested it and the people gave it to him "at the order of the Lord". He built up the town and lived in it ().

archaeological site in the West Bank

cave in West Bank

fortress in Israel

archeological site in the West Bank

Synagogue in Jericho, West Bank (Yesh"a), Palestina

laura in the present-day West Bank founded by Saint Euthymius the Great in 420

Georgian inscription

The synagogue of the Jewish community Eshtemoa in the Land of Israel

Susya (, ; Susiyeh, Susiya, Susia) is a location in the southern Hebron Governorate in the West Bank. It houses an archaeological site with extensive remains from the Late Roman and Byzantine periods, including the ruins of an archeologically notable synagogue, repurposed as a mosque after the Muslim conquest of Palestine in the 7th century. A Palestinian village named Susya was established near the site in the 1830s. The village lands extended over 300 hectares under multiple private Palestinian ownership, and the Palestinians on the site are said to exemplify a southern Hebron cave-dwelling

archaeological site in Israel

Khirbet Ibziq, Kh. Ibzîk, the ruin of Ibzîk, p.n. is the name of a village with two ruins in the West Bank, separated by one kilometer and referred to in the Manasseh Hill Country Survey as Khirbet Ibziq (Lower, al-Tahta) and Khirbet Ibziq (Upper, al-Fauqa). They are about twenty kilometers northeast of Nablus. The "Lower" site is to the northeast of the "Upper" site.

Minṭaqat taqaʻu ʻalá al-Shāṭiʼ al-gharbī lil-baḥr al-mayyit

City in the Bible

former monastery in the West Bank

thumb|right|Blue Lupines at Tel Socho Sokho (alternate spellings: Sokhoh, Sochoh, Soco, Sokoh; ) is the name given to two ancient towns in the territorial domain of Judah as mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, west of the Judean hills. Both towns were given the name Shuweikah in Arabic, a diminutive of the Arabic shawk, meaning "thorn". The remains of both have since been identified.

rock-cut tomb in Palestine

Et-Tell () or Khirbet et-Tell (also meaning "heap of ruins") is an archaeological site in the West Bank in Palestine. The site is commonly identified with the biblical city of Ai.

archaeological site in the West Bank

thumb|upright=1.7|Object said to be "the oldest sickle", flint and resin, Tahunian culture, c. 7000 BC, [[Nahal Hemar Cave. Israel Museum.]]

Biblical figure tomb in the West Bank

agricultural and residential area in Hebron

spring in the West Bank

archaeological site north of Jerusalem, in the West Bank

archaeological site in the West Bank

archaeological tomb-site in the territory of the biblical kingdom of Judah, between Lachish and Hebron

archaeological site in Salfit Governorate, Palestine

Archaeological site in Palestine

open air ancient cult installation now in the West Bank

archaeological site in Israel