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THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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Egypt occupied the country where it set up a network of strongholds.
This has been CONFIRMED BY THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations.
Tell Beth-Shean
One of those strongholds was excavated in the 1920s at Beth-Shean, south of the Sea of Galilee.
The el-Amarna letters, and the archaeological excavations, clearly show that Beth-Shean, whose Biblical mound dominates the Roman and Byzantine ruins,
was an important Egyptian bastion between the 14th and mid-12th centuries.
[Israel Finkelstein] If you want to understand the way the Egyptians
dominated completely the country and the countryside,
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