Archaeologists at the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered a massive 5,000-year-old city at En Esur (Ein Asawir) in central Israel, about 7.5 miles east of Caesarea Maritima. Covering 160 acres, it is the largest city from the Early Bronze Age (c. 3300–2000 B.C.E.) found in the land of Israel. Roughly 6,000 people lived there. Beneath this, archaeologists also uncovered an earlier settlement dating to the Chalcolithic period, about 7,000 years ago. The Early Bronze Age city had a fortification wall, houses, public areas, streets, alleys, and even a temple. Its inhabitants, mostly farmers, traded with people both near […]