How to Find the Hazor Archives (I Think)

Home > Magazines > BAR > March/April 2017

Biblical Hazor was the largest and most important royal city in the southern Levant in the second millennium B.C.E. Its continuing exploration has brought to light impressive architecture and unique objects. But, one major discovery remains elusive: Where are Hazor’s cuneiform archives?

You have already read your free article for this month. Please join the BAS Library or become an All Access member of BAS to gain full access to this article and so much more.

Join the BAS Library!

Already a library member? Log in here.

Institution user? Log in with your IP address or Username

Footnotes

1. Sharon Zuckerman, “Where Is the Hazor Archive Buried?” BAR 32:02.

2. Strata: Milestones: “Sharon Zuckerman (1965–2014),” BAR 41:02.

3. Amnon Ben-Tor, “Who Destroyed Canaanite Hazor?” BAR 39:04.

Endnotes

For a full description on the Hazor tablets, see Wayne Horowitz, “Hazor: A Cuneiform City in the West,” Near Eastern Archaeology 76 (2013), pp. 98–101.