Maresha was an Iron Age city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, whose remains have been excavated at Tell Sandahanna (Arabic name), an archaeological mound or 'tell' renamed after its identification to Tel Maresha (Hebrew: תל מראשה).The ancient Judahite city became Idumaean after the fall of Judah in 586 BCE, and after Alexander's conquest of the region in 332 BCE became Hellenised under ...

Jan 7, 2021 · THE CITY OF MARESHA sits atop a maze of underground rooms and passages that once served as cellars, stalls, and … archives. Marked here with the yellow circle is Room 67 within the Subterranean Complex 89, where clay bullae indicate that the space was apparently reused to store written documents. Credit: Courtesy of the Maresha Expedition

Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park is a national park in central Israel, containing a large network of caves recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. [1] The national park includes the remains of the historical towns of Maresha, one of the important towns of Judah during the First Temple Period, [2] and Bayt Jibrin, a depopulated Palestinian town known as …

De grotten van Maresha en Bet Guvrin vormen een “stad onder een stad”. Het is een selectie kunstmatige grotten, opgegraven uit de dikke homogene laag van zacht krijt in het Judese laagland. Onder de oude zustersteden van Maresha en Bet Guvrin bevinden zich kamers en netwerken met verschillende vormen en functies. Ze getuigen van een grote ...

Sep 16, 2018 · Tel Maresha, located in the Judean foothills southwest of Jerusalem, exists on two levels—one a typical Hellenistic town; the other a subterranean metropolis of cave complexes. These caves, as described by archaeologist Ian Stern in the September/October 2013 issue of BAR, accommodated many of the everyday building, industrial and even ritual needs of a thriving, multi-ethnic community ...

Maresha was the central city in Western Idumea, at the same time as Adoryim controlled the east part of Idumea. After the conquests of Alexander the Great the entire region in 332 BC, Sidonians who adopted the Greek culture also arrived to Maresha. A Greek community developed in the city, consisting of citizens and retired military personnel ...

Beth Guvrin had been a suburb of Maresha, but it became the major living center by the Roman Period. Amphitheater. Beth Guvrin eventually became Eleutheropolis (“City of the Free”) in the Late Roman period (AD 200) when Emperor Septimus Severus turned it into a major administrative center. The amphitheater dates to this period and was used ...

Jun 17, 2016 · Other sites around Tel Maresha and Beit Guvrin – the land with a 1,000 caves – are covered in Maresha-2 page and more sites will be added soon in other pages. Location: An aerial map of Tel Maresha is illustrated here, with indication of the major points of interest. This section is part of the large Beit Guvrin-Maresha national park.

Maresha Tel Maresha is located in Israel's Shephelah region, i.e. in the foothills of the Judaean Mountains. It was established in the Iron Age II and is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible (Josh 15:44; I Chron. 2:42). But it is mainly a Hellenistic-period site—a major Idumean political and administrative center. Maresha is

Marisa was called Maresha in Biblical times and is listed in the Book of Joshua as one of the cities of Judah (Joshua 15:44; 1 Chronicles 2:42).Thanks to its location on one of the main routes into the Judean hills from the coastal plain, Maresha was one of the towns fortified by King Rehoboam (Solomon’s son).