Location:
Tel Beersheba
Description:
Well at the main gate at Tel Beersheba.

// Photo by Lisa Meserve

Location:
Tel Beersheba
Description:
In ancient times, the city gate served as the social and business hub of the city. Here legal property transactions took place and prophets prophesied. The gates often had separate "rooms" (spaces between sections of the gates for defense)where disputes would be settled by a judge or a king.

// Photo by Gard Meserve

Location:
Tel Beersheba
Description:
Replica of the horned altar destroyed by King Hezekiah (2 Kgs 18:4).

// Photo by Terry C. Hulbert

Location:
Tel Beersheba
Description:
A perspective on the size of the eighth century B.C. city at Tel Sheva. The city occupied 3 acres. The wadi in the background extends northwards some twenty miles to Hebron.

// Photo by Terry C. Hulbert