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Ancient Nahal Tillah

The Nahal Tillah is a small secondary seasonal drainage which debauches into the larger Nahal Gerar and is located near the interface between the Irano-Turanian semi-arid and Mediterranean environmental zones of Israeli northern Negev and southern Shephelah ...

Recent excavations in Israel's northern Negev desert - carried out under the auspices of the new Nahal Tillah Regional Archaeology Project - are beginning to shed new light on the character of late Protodynastic and Early Dynastic Egyptian/Canaanite interaction circa 3300 - 3000 BC. Of key importance are new data concerning the role of one of the earliest historically known Egyptian kings - Narmer - in expansion of the Nile Valley civilization ...

The History of the Ancient Near East Electronic Compendium