How to Tell a "TELL"

Terry Eddinger

Related Links

General Links

• http://www.wwc.edu/academics/departments/theology/mpp/hisban/index.htm
  This site has a nice photo of Tall Hisban from a distance. Madaba Plains Project runs this site, which has information about three tells in Jordan.
   

• http://www.muheisenz.homestead.com/Dharih.html
  Zeidoun Al-Muheisen Home Page contains a page on Khirbet edh-Darih. Here are some good aerial photos of ancient ruins exposed through excavation.
   

• http://www.cwru.edu/affil/nimrin/menu/nimrin.htm
  This site on Tell Nimrin (in Jordan) has good photos, drawings, and descriptions of tell excavations.
   

• http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/archaeology/megiddo/excavationsCG.html
  The Megiddo Expedition Home Page has good photos of one of Israel’s larger and better known tells.
   

• http://www.abila.org/
  This is a link to Tell Abila, a site in Jordan known for its Roman and Byzantine ruins.

Holy Land Photo Site Links

• http://www.holylandphotos.org/browse.asp?s=1,2,5,29,77&thumbs=1
  This link is to a page with photos of architecture and artifacts found at Tell Dan (in Israel).
   

• http://www.holylandphotos.org/browse.asp?s=1,2,5,29,103&img=INHVHZ01
  This link is to photos of Hazor, also a tell in Israel.
   

• http://www.holylandphotos.org/browse.asp?s=1,197,198,217&img=JCMA01
  This is a nice link to photos of Machaerus, one of the sites in the test section of my web page.
   

• http://www.holylandphotos.org/browse.asp?s=1,2,6,27,122
  This is a link to photos of Gezer (Tell Jezer) in Israel.
   

• http://www.holylandphotos.org/browse.asp?s=1,2,6,33,88
  This link is to a report on Et-Tell (biblical Ai). There is a good photo of the tell from a distance.