The City of David, or Ir David in Hebrew, is the original city of biblical Jerusalem.
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The burnt house is the excavated remains of a house in the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem which was destroyed at the time of the destruction of the second temple.
Megiddo National Park is a tel in the Galilee in Northern Israel, with 26 layers of ruins.
Aqueducts were first introduced in Caesarea by King Herod in the first century.
The bird mosaic was originally part of a large 6th century mansion.
Tel Lachish is located near the modern city of Beit Shemesh, between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
The grave of Shmuel HaNavi is located just north of Jerusalem.
Shilo is the ancient site where the tabernacle, or mishkan, was kept for 369 years.
The Israel Museum was founded in 1965 as the national museum.
The Rockefeller Archaeological Museum in Jerusalem was built in the 1930s.
Shivta National Park is an ancient Nabatean city in the Negev Desert.
Avdat was a city on the Nabatean Incense route. Avdat was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in June 2005
The Byzantine Dung Gate was built in the 5th century.
Belvoir National Park, known as Kochav HaYarden, is located on the hills above the Jordan Valley.
Beit Alpha is a kibbutz in the Beit Shean valley with an ancient synagogue from the 5th century.
Tel Be’er Sheva is the remains of the biblical town of Beer Sheva.
The National Park in Ashkelon has a tel and a seaport dating from the Bronze Age.
The Gamla nature reserve is located in the Golan.
Ein Hemed, also known as Aqua Bella, is a national park just outside of Jerusalem.
Mamshit National Park is in the Negev. It is a Nabatean village dating from the Nabatean period.
Caesarea National Park is located in the lower Galilee.
Korazim is a national park in the Galilee.
The Tel Dan Nature Reserve is in the Galilee. It is also the site of the ancient city of Dan.
Beit Shean National Park has one of the largest excavations in Israel. It is unique in that over 18 successive cities have been discovered in the tel. The city of Beit Shean dates bake to the 5th millennium BCE.
Nimrod’s Fortress is a national park in the northern Golan Heights. It is made up of three parts built during the 12th and 13th centuries by Moslems.
Masada, the fortress at the Dead Sea, was the site of King Herod’s palaces built as a refuge. Later on, the fortress was used by the Zealots during the first Jewish Revolt against the Romans. The suicide pact, as told by Josephus Flavius, is also recounted here.
The Herodian Quarter is an archaeological museum in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem.
The Herodium fortress, built by Herod the Great, is now a national park.
The Banias is a nature reserve in the Golan Heights. At one end is the waterfall, at the other is the Banias spring and the Pan Temples.
Beit Guvrin National Park has ancient caves as well as the ancient city of Tel Maresha.
