5,500-year-old gate found at Tell Erani | HeritageDaily

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have discovered a 5,500-year-old gate at the multi-period archaeological site of Tell Erani in the Southern District of Israel.

Tell Erani, also known as ʻIrâq el-Menshiyeh, was first occupied in the Chalcolithic period, but the majority of archaeological remains date from the Bronze Age and early Iron Age.

The site was first documented by Claude Reignier Conder and Herbert Kitchener in their 1872–1877 survey for the Palestine Exploration Fund, revealing evidence of people also inhabiting the site from the Hellenistic,…