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Tel Arad
The first human settlements in Arad were founded around 4000 BC. Canaanites had a village here between
3000 BC – 2650 BC, and in the 11th century BC Israelites built a town in Arad.
The city is mentioned in an inscription
of Pharaoh Shishak in Karnak, Egypt, in a list of cities conquered by the Egyptian army in 925 BC.
Ancient Arad was destroyed in the wars of eighth century AD, and has remained uninhabited ever since.
The once-walled area of ancient Arad is approximately More information:
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