El-Khirba is a settlement situated in the southern fringes of the modern town Nes Ziyyona, Israel, within the southern part of the Mediterranean Coastal Plain. The large-scale excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority yielded archaeological remains dated mainly to Roman–Ottoman periods.

Relevant publications:
Ad, U., Taxel, I., #Adama, E. and Rosenberg D. in press. El-Khirba (Nes Ziyyona): A Rural Settlement from the Persian through British Mandate Periods. in press. Atiqot.

Adama, E., Ad, U. and Rosenberg D. 2018. El-Khirba: Food processing and other ground stone tools from a Roman, Abbasid and Mamluk period site near Nes Ziyyona, Israel. In: Squitieri, E. and Eitam, D. (eds.) Stone Tools in the Near East and Egypt. From Prehistory to Late Antiquity, pp. 645–660. Archaeopress, Oxford.