English: Kuntilled Ajrud inscriptions. A picture of a news page, headline:"ISRAELIS FIND RARE WRITINGS" also: ads and stories about churches The Times-News 09 Jul 1976, Fri ·Page 9 | NY Times Service KUNTILLET AJRUD Israeli-occupied Sinai -- On this lonely, isolated hill overlooking a vast and empty desert plain, an Israeli archaeological team has discovered...
The fortress is the southernmost and western-most Judean site ever discovered. ...
The site is on top of an isolated hill halfway between Gaza and Elath. It rises only above the surrounding plain but affords an unbroken view for at least 20 miles in every direction.
At the foot of the hill a clump of desert scrub surround the 10 wells of Ajrud. The wells, which still work and are used by the Bedouin today, date to antiquity. Meshel assumes it was these wells that originally drew travelers...
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