Tell Balata (Arabic: تل بلاطة) is the site of the remains of an ancient Canaanite and Israelite[1] city, identified since 1913 with the Biblical city of Shechem. It is located in the West Bank.[2] The built-up area of Balata, a Palestinian village and suburb of Nablus, covers about one-third of the tell, and overlooks a vast plain to the east.[3][4]
The Palestinian village of Salim is located 4.5 kilometers (2.8 mi) to the
east.[5]
The site is listed by UNESCO as part of the Inventory of Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites of Potential Outstanding Universal Value in the Palestinian Territories.[2] Experts estimate that the towers and buildings at the site date back 5,000 years to the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages.[2]
^Excavations done at former Israelite capital Shechem
^ abcHaaretz service and Cnaan Liphshiz (2 March 2010). "Palestinian archeology gets int'l boost ahead of 2011 statehood plan". Haaretz. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
^"Tell Balata". Visitpalestine.ps. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
TellBalata (Arabic: تل بلاطة) is the site of the remains of an ancient Canaanite and Israelite city, identified since 1913 with the Biblical city of...
well known sites: TellBalata (considered to be Biblical Shechem), Jacob's Well and Joseph's Tomb. The village is just north of Balata Camp, one of the...
of Nablus, Shechem is now identified with the nearby site of TellBalata in the Balata al-Balad suburb of the West Bank. Shechem's position is indicated...
Balata may refer to: Balata village or Balata al-Balad, a suburb of Nablus, West Bank Balata Camp, a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank Tell Balata...
Balata Camp (Arabic: مخيم بلاطة) is a Palestinian refugee camp established in the northern West Bank in 1950, adjacent to Balata village on the outskirts...
limits today are Ein Beit al-Ma', Balata and Askar. During the Jordanian period, the adjacent villages of Rafidia, Balata al-Balad, al-Juneid and Askar were...
Oriental Research at TellBalata (1956–1964), the British School of Archaeology at Jericho (1952–1958), and the École Biblique at Tell el-Farah (1946–1960)...
ISBN 978-0-415-39485-7. W. F. Albright, The Fourth Joint Campaign of Excavation at Tell Beit Mirsim, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 47...
Solomon's Pools Susiya White Mosque (Ramla) Tell Abu Hawam Tel Arad TellBalata Tel Be'er Sheva Tel Dan Tell el-Hesi Tel Hazor Tel Megiddo Tel Michal Tel...
kilometers east of Asira ash-Shamaliya, northeast of Nablus and north of TellBalata (biblical Shechem). The Mount Ebal structure was found by Adam Zertal...
(2004). Early Beth Shan (Strata XIX-XIII): G.M. Fitzgerald's Deep Cut on the Tell. University Museum Monograph. Vol. 121. University of Pennsylvania Museum...
Abel Beth Maacah Excavations. Jacqueline Balensi (Winter 1985). "Revising Tell Abu Hawam". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (257)....
have populations above 1,000 and village councils of 3 to 9 members. Askar Balata Ein Beit al-Ma' Governorates of Palestine "Main Indicators by Type of Locality...
McConville 2007, p. 175. Joshua 24:26 ESV Stephen Langfur. Ancient Shechem (TellBalata) at Nablus (Shechem) Archived 2019-06-17 at the Wayback Machine. NET...
Land of Olives and Vines as a Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem; and Tell es-Sultan in ancient Jericho. Two are on UNESCO's List of World Heritage...
working with James Leslie Starkey at Tell ed-Duweir (Lachish, 1932–1939), George Ernest Wright at TellBalata (Shechem, 1956–1973), the American Schools...
Global Information
Nablus, West Bank