MEGIDDO
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Valley of Megiddo
Valley of Jezreel
Plain of Esdraelon
The town of Nazareth can be seen on the hills across the valley, about 8-10 miles away.

Har (Mountain of) Megiddo (Armageddon)
Tel Megiddo
A man-made hill-city of over 20 levels of construction dating to before 3000 B.C.E.

Solomonic gate, built as a defensive measure.
Canaanite level with large round sacrificial altar. Tunnel to water supply. The spring was outside the city walls, and this tunnel led to it with its outer opening camouflaged. Archaeological cut into the hill made in the 19th century.





6 July 2013