Heritage sites, Archaeological discoveries, History of Archaeology

Et-Tell

Location

city of Jericho

Country

Israel

Year of Research

1838

Culture

The first archaeological exploration of ET-Tell was maintained in September 1928 under the control of John Garstang.

Eight trenches were dug, five against the outer side of the southern city wall and three within the city itself. The outcome of this excavation was never formally created, and the only report known is a three-page summary filed by Garstang at the end of the work.

In a later book, Garstang requested that Late Bronze Age pottery, dating to ca. 1400 BC, was found in this excavation, but this pottery was not described in his earlier summary of the work and cannot now be located.The next excavation at et-Tell took place during three seasons between 1933 and 1935 and was led by Judith Marquet-Krause, with backing from Baron Edmond de Rothschild. A fourth season of excavation was cut short by Marquet-Krause's untimely death in July 1936; however, her husband stored a catalog of objects present in the excavation and published it in 1949.

This campaign turn on the upper region of the mound and demolish regions of the acropolis and a village dating to the Iron Age.Eight new sites were constituted at et-Tell in areas next to Marquet-Krause's expedition and along the lower east city walls, and three smaller sites in the neighborhood were surveyed to create a more whole archaeological profile of the region.