ENGLISH Tel Megiddo National Park, Tel. 04-6590316 Tel. Park, National Megiddo Tel The horizontal tunnel of the water system water the of tunnel horizontal The passageway was discovered that ran beneath Megiddo’s city wall. wall. city Megiddo’s beneath ran that discovered was passageway * I 3639 I www.parks.org.il 19. The ‘gallery’ – – ‘gallery’ The 19. Southwest of the water system a narrow narrow a system water the of Southwest taking the path to the left that skirts the water system. water the skirts that left the to path the taking Adi Greenbaum Adi Production: Before descending into the water system, you can visit the ‘gallery,’ ‘gallery,’ the visit can you system, water the into descending Before INPA Archive; Israel Antiquities Authority Archive Authority Antiquities Israel Archive; INPA Photographs: palaces in Assyria, albeit on a smaller scale. smaller a on albeit Assyria, in palaces Doron Nissim Doron photograph: Cover Assyrian building techniques. The plan of both structures resembles resembles structures both of plan The techniques. building Assyrian Shalom Kveller Shalom Map: the southern one; the elaborate construction of the latter reveals reveals latter the of construction elaborate the one; southern the Miriam Feinberg Vamosh Feinberg Miriam Translator: Assyrian district. The northern of the two palaces was built before before built was palaces two the of northern The district. Assyrian Prof. Israel Finkelstein and Prof. David Ussishkin Ussishkin David Prof. and Finkelstein Israel Prof. Consultants: governor during the period when Megiddo was the capital city of an an of city capital the was Megiddo when period the during governor Inbal Samet Inbal Writer: of palaces – administrative structures that served the Assyrian Assyrian the served that structures administrative – palaces of palaces – palaces Assyrian The 18. 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To this end, Megiddo’s inhabitants inhabitants Megiddo’s end, this To walls. the exit to having without city are gates, walls, temples, storehouses, stables and water systems. water and stables storehouses, temples, walls, gates, are The horses would pass through this hall to side rooms with stone- with rooms side to hall this through pass would horses The during the period of the Israelite kings, in order to bring water into the the into water bring to order in kings, Israelite the of period the during of Israel in particular. Among the impressive archaeological vestiges vestiges archaeological impressive the Among particular. in Israel of Each structure featured a central hall with a thickly plastered floor. floor. plastered thickly a with hall central a featured structure Each 20. The water system – system water The 20. Megiddo’s huge water system was hewn hewn was system water huge Megiddo’s peoples of the land of Israel in general, and the history of the people people the of history the and general, in Israel of land the of peoples horses on the troughs, as well as holes, probably to tether animals. animals. tether to probably holes, as well as troughs, the on horses produced exciting finds that shed light on the history of the various various the of history the on light shed that finds exciting produced pillars flanking troughs. The excavators discovered bite-marks of of bite-marks discovered excavators The troughs. flanking pillars National Park National pavilion via a path along the foot of the mound. the of foot the along path a via pavilion archaeological excavations carried out at these mounds have have mounds these at out carried excavations archaeological was divided into three lengthwise units separated by rows of stone stone of rows by separated units lengthwise three into divided was a car waiting for you there. If not, you can return on foot to the entrance entrance the to foot on return can you not, If there. you for waiting car a best examples of cities from the time of the Bible. The intensive intensive The Bible. the of time the from cities of examples best training ground, with a square trough in the center. Each structure structure Each center. the in trough square a with ground, training Megiddo system will exit to a parking lot outside the site. It is preferable to have have to preferable is It site. the outside lot parking a to exit will system in the Bible, were chosen out of approximately 200 tells as the the as tells 200 approximately of out chosen were Bible, the in It includes five lengthwise structures that opened onto a large large a onto opened that structures lengthwise five includes It steps should now return to the entrance pavilion. Visitors to the water water the to Visitors pavilion. entrance the to return now should steps universal significance. These mounds, mentioned frequently frequently mentioned mounds, These significance. universal stable complexes dating from the period of the Israelite kings. kings. Israelite the of period the from dating complexes stable way to end your visit to Megiddo. 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