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PHOTO BY SKY-VIEW, © INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY, TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY

RAMAT RAHEL, about 3 miles south of Jerusalem, was the heart of a centralized administrative system based on collecting and storing agricultural products, evidenced by large quantities of stamped jars found there. The center—and the expansive administrative system it supported for six centuries—came to an end in the second century B.C.E.