An ancient underground quarry in the Jordan Valley was discovered in 2009 by University of Haifa archeologists. The quarry is located about 3 miles (5 km)...
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Yardenit. Ancient underground quarry, Jordan Valley, possibly associated by the Byzantines with Gilgal and the "twelve stones" Gilgal, site in the Jordan Valley...
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Turkey Ancient solution Ancient towns in Saudi Arabia Ancient trackway Ancient underground quarry, Jordan Valley Ancient veena Ancient vessel Ancient Roman...
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Gilgal (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
with this identification, while Abel agreed with it. Ancient underground quarry, Jordan Valley, possibly associated by the Byzantines with Gilgal and...
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Jericho (category Cities in the Great Rift Valley)
Brazil (1998) Al-Shuna al-Shamalyah, Jordan (2016) Musa Alami Asia portal Ancient underground quarry, Jordan Valley, some 5 km (3 mi) north of Jericho al-Auja...
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Ebal. Underground quarry (possibly identified as biblical Galgala). In 2009, Zertal headed a team that discovered an ancient underground quarry in the...
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Intensely laborious when using ancient tools and methods, rock-cut architecture was presumably combined with quarrying the rock for use elsewhere. In...
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Copper Scroll (category Jordan Museum collections)
eastward and westward towards the Jordan River valley and irrigating large tracts of land along the Jordan valley. The nearest place to Jerusalem that...
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Syria, Iran, Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. The largest concentration can be found in southern Syria and along the Jordan Rift Valley; these are threatened...
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The ancient Romans were famous for their advanced engineering accomplishments. Technology for bringing running water into cities was developed in the...
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Silwan (category Ancient Israel and Judah)
century. In the ancient period, the area where the village stands was occupied by the necropolis of the Biblical kingdom. In the valley below, according...
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Roman Empire (redirect from Ancient Roman Empire)
agriculture; and mining. Convicts provided much of the labour in the mines or quarries, where conditions were notoriously brutal. In practice, there was little...
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direction underground and coordinating the advance of the separate work parties made meticulous surveying and execution on the part of the ancient engineers...
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Dinosaur National Monument (section The quarry)
Although most of the monument area is in Moffat County, Colorado, the Dinosaur Quarry is located in Utah, north of the town of Jensen, Utah. The nearest Colorado...
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Hebron (redirect from Hebron, Jordan)
Jordan demolished whole blocks of ancient houses opposite its entrance, which also resulted in improved access to the historic site. The Jordanians also...
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and is surrounded by valleys. The territory consists of fertile valleys, such as the Jezreel Valley and the Jordan River Valley. Palestine is home to...
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Peleg, Yehuda (1994). "The Water Supply of the Desert Fortresses in the Jordan Valley". The Biblical Archaeologist. 57 (3): 161–170. doi:10.2307/3210411....
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least six underground mines in the valley. At the height of production in 1914 Steelrigg employed five men below ground and nine above. The quarry fell out...
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annex and the addition were built using the same granite from the original quarry and designed to match the temple's architecture. Sandstone was originally...
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Shuafat (section Jordanian period)
discovered at Ramat Shlomo, at what was formerly known as Shuafat Ridge. A large quarry, possibly linked to Herod's expansion of the Second Temple, dating to the...
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night panther". However, it is also commonly referred to as the "Great underground wildcat" or "Great under-water wildcat." It is the most important of...
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The Pont du Gard is an ancient Roman aqueduct bridge built in the first century AD to carry water over 50 km (31 mi) to the Roman colony of Nemausus (Nîmes)...
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Church of the Holy Sepulchre (category Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs (Jordan))
the nearby Muristan bazaar, it was found that the area was originally a quarry, from which white meleke limestone was struck. East of the Chapel of Saint...
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these springs typically flows briefly on the surface before sinking underground again at elevation of the contact between the sandstone caprock and the...
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Slavery in India (redirect from Slavery in ancient India)
Indian quarries - Stop Child Labour". Stop Child Labour. 11 May 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016. "Modern slavery and child labour in Indian quarries". www...
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Nablus (section Jordanian period)
position at a junction between two ancient commercial roads; one linking the Sharon coastal plain to the Jordan valley, the other linking Nablus to the...
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Belgrade (category Ancient cities in Serbia)
Majdan-Topčider, Profile at the Kalemegdan Fortress, Abandoned quarry in Barajevo, Karagača valley, Artesian well in Ovča, Kapela loess profile, and Lake in...
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B.C.E.". Israel Exploration Journal. 46 (1/2): 120–130. "Underground world found at quarry – Israel Culture, Ynetnews". Ynetnews. Ynetnews.com. June...
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names written on the walls by devout Jews who had visited them". An ancient quarry was reshaped into a forecourt, with the burial caves hewn out of the...
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unbeknownst to her mother, Malia survived. The Desert Wolf eventually became the quarry of Braeden, the mercenary. In Season 5 "Ouroboros", the Desert Wolf tracks...
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