Ancient city located c.16 km/10 mi N of the Sea of Galilee, on the W side of the R Jordan in Upper Galilee. The tel is a raised mound which has the layered remains of ancient cities. In the 9th-c BC it was an important strategic and regional centre under Ahab who built an elaborate underground water system to supply the city. Finally destroyed by the Assyrians (723 BC), the site was discovered in 1928 by J Garstang and later excavated by Yigael Yadin.
Hazor (Hebrew: "courtyard" or "settlement") is the name of several places in ancient and modern Israel:
Locations in ancient Israel
One of the most important Caananite towns. Archaeological findings suggests that there may have been more than 20,000 people living there at the time of the conquest, the town covering about
60 hectares. The town was fortified by Solomon. Later the town was conquered by Tiglath-Pileser III. (
See main article at: Hazor (archeological site).) A town in Negev. A town in
Benjamin,maybe identical with Khirbet Hazzur. de Rothschild provided funding for a series of expeditions at Hazor, the largest Biblical Tells (prehistoric settlement mounds) in Israel. A
five-volume set of books has been published by the Israel Exploration Society which chronicles the James A.
Locations in modern-day Israel
A town in northern Israel (see Hazor HaGelilit) A Kibbutz in central Israel (see Kibbutz Hatzor), also called "
Hatzor Ashdod" after the nearby city.
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