Khirbet el-Maqatir - Samaria & Center

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March 12, 2010|1:38 pm
Aerial from east
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Kh. el-Maqatir is upper left; et-Tell is right center

Aerial from east 

One mile due west of traditional Ai (et-Tell) is Kh. el-Maqatir, an alternate location for Ai. Its location fits the approximate area one would expect to find the city that Joshua destroyed in the Conquest. Furthermore, the absence of any evidence of inhabitation at et-Tell should compel the honest historian to look elsewhere for Ai.

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