ARAD -eine 5000 Jahre alte Stadt in der Wuste Negev, Israel by Amiran, Ruth & Ilan Ornit - 1992

Germany: Karl Wachholtz, 1992. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. INSCRIBED by the Author. Beautifully illustrated. Arad is actually a double site- a large and spacious 25-acre Canaanite city and a small, three-quarter-acre Israelite fortress. The ancient sites are situated on a bowl-shaped hill six miles from the attractive, modern, desert city of Arad in the Negev. The Israelite fortress is on the northeastern height of the hill. Below this Israelite citadel (11th to 6th centuries B.C.) stretch the extensive remains of the Canaanite settlement (3200-2650 B.C.), the latter encircled by its distinctive city wall interrupted by 11 extant round towers. .