Megiddo

After leaving Tiberius where we spent two nights at a lovely hotel overlooking the Galilee, the Scots Hotel we drove west to Megiddo.
This is a hill overlooking the Jezreel Valley dating back to 4th or 5th century BCE. The various settlements through the ages controlled the main routes between the east and the Mediterranean.




The hill on the left is Nazareth.


Initially fortified by the Canannites it was occupied by over 20 different settlements abandoned and then rediscovered in a 20th century archeological dig.

Roman steps

















An ancient grain silo which held 450 cubit meters of silage.





We then descended several hundred steps to an ancient underground reservoir which connects to a spring outside the fortified walls,





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