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PHOTO COURTESY OF TEL REKHESH

PINS AND PROJECTILES. Several finds from the Iron Age citadel at Tel Rekhesh, including a fibula and two arrowheads, date to the Iron Age IIC (700-586 B.C.E.) and seem to have Mesopotamian origins. Similarly, the two arrowheads are Scytho-Iranian types. One dates to the late seventh-early sixth centuries B.C.E. (pictured), and the other dates to the early sixth-early fourth centuries B.C.E.. These finds suggest that, after the fall of the northern Kingdom of Israel, Tel Rekhesh’s new residents came from Mesopotamia.