Tel Kabri is one of the largest Bronze Age cities uncovered in Israel. It spreads over an area of 80 acres in the western Galilee 5 km east of the modern town of Nahariya (map ref. 1632-2681). The most prominent feature of this important multi-period site is the rampart surrounding it.
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Finds to date include:
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Pottery Neolithic occupation levels that contain traces of buildings, a single burial, polished stone axes, flint implements, and sherds typical of the Wadi Rabah culture
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Rectilinear and curvilinear buildings and tombs of the Early Bronze Age I–II
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Private homes, tombs, a fortification system, and the palace of the local ruler from the Middle Bronze Age (after which it was apparently abandoned), built in typical Canaanite style and decorated with a plaster floor and wall paintings in Minoan style
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Iron Age remains of a Phoenician city founded in the 10th century BCE and a casemate wall attributed to the 9th–8th centuries BCE
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Remains from the Hellenistic period, including an aqueduct
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Settlement remains from the Roman to Ottoman periods, when the local inhabitants preferred to live on the hill to the northeast of the ancient settlement.
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Remains of two Arab villages (et-Tell and en-Naher) that were built on the southern ruins of the Middle Bronze Age enclosure in the 17th and 18th centuries CE.
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| The center of the Middle Bronze Age Palace after the 2005 season... |