FINDING A LOST CITY
Feb 24, 2021
3 minutes
STORY BY KAREN MCGHEE
STUDENTS FROM MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY, Sydney, have been helping to rewrite the history books by uncovering ancient artefacts at the 3000-year-old site of a long-lost city in the Middle East known as Khirbet el-Rai. The site, surrounded by farmlands and orchards, occupies just 1.7ha of a hilltop in the foothills of a mountain range in southern Israel that leads up to Jerusalem, near the town of Kiryat Gat.
A team from Macquarie, the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem began excavating there in 2015,
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