Modern archaeological research on the mound began in the early 1920s, when E.L.
Sukenik examined finds from the section of the old Samak-Tiberias road that traversed the mound
along its entire length. At about the same time W.F. Albright conducted his own investigation of
the site; he was the first to identify and define the pottery known as Khirbet Kerak Ware. The
first archaeological excavation was conducted in 1933, when the modern Samak (Zemah)-Tiberias
highway was constructed. Over the next seventy years some twenty excavation licenses were issued
for Tel Bet Yerah and approximately 15,000 square meters were excavated, most of them in Early
Bronze Age strata. In the summer of 2003 TBYREP renewed excavations in the northern part of the
site, with a pilot excavation in the Granary.
 Palestine Post, 1945
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