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COURTESY OF THE FOURTH EXPEDITION TO LACHISH

TEL LACHISH was an important Canaanite city-state of the Late Bronze Age (c. 1550–1200/1130 B.C.E.), positioned strategically between the Mediterranean coast and Jerusalem. In the Bible, it is destroyed by the conquering Israelites, then rebuilt as a Judahite city, and finally taken by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar, in 586 B.C.E. This southwest-looking view shows the newly discovered Northeast Temple under excavation (outlined by white sandbags), the Acropolis Temple on the highest point in the middle, and the Fosse Temple behind it, at the edge of the tell.