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Tel Lachish
Bronze and Iron Age city mound
Tel Lachish is a tell in the record of Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet, placed to about 100 m.
Three events on the site happened here, between 1449 and 2022: An ink inscription of six letters is written on a Cypriot bowl at Lachish, later radiocarbon-dated to the 15th century BC, and later Vainstub and colleagues read a seventeen-letter sentence on an ivory comb from Lachish.
Source of the Lachish dagger, ewer and bowl inscriptions, the 2018 sherd dated to the 15th century BC and the ivory comb.
One artifact in the record is tied to it, including The Lachish early alphabetic texts: the 2018 bowl sherd and the ivory comb.
Written from the site's records. Improve itPlaced from Wikipedia article coordinates for Tel Lachish (31.5647 N, 34.8489 E) · Placed to about 100 mOpen the mystery's map
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Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet
The mystery Bronze and Iron Age city mound · 3 events
What happened here 3
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Artifacts 1
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). Tel Lachish [Place PLC0DEDPXDA5SVX]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/PLC0DEDPXDA5SVX
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title = {Tel Lachish},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Place, catalog key PLC0DEDPXDA5SVX},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/PLC0DEDPXDA5SVX}
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