Tel Shiqmona is a modest-sized mound of ca. two acres, situated on a small, rocky headland between the Carmel Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea – currently on the southern outskirts of the modern city of Haifa. It was excavated in the 1960s and 1970s by the Haifa City Museum of Ancient Art and, recently, by a team from the Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa. In the Iron Age, the site was part of the Kingdom of Israel. It witnessed several historical events, including the Assyrian campaign of Tiglath-Plaser III at end of the 8th century BCE, and continued to function for a few decades after the Assyrian conquest.
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