Tels (prehistoric settlement mounds), are characteristic of the flatter lands of the eastern Mediterranean, particularly Lebanon, Syria, Israel and eastern Turkey. Of more than 200 tels in Israel, Megiddo, Hazor and Beer Sheba are representative of those that contain substantial remains of cities with biblical connections. The three tels also present some of the best examples in the Levant of elaborate Iron Age, underground water-collecting systems, created to serve dense urban communities. Their traces of construction over the millennia reflect the existence of centralized authority, prosperous agricultural activity and the control of important trade routes.
Criteria for inclusion as a World Heritage Site
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| ii | To exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design. | All |
| iii | To bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared. | All |
| iv | To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history. | All |
| vi | To be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria). | All |
Nearby
Sites
| Name | Since | Distance | |||
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| Nisco Museum | 2020 | 22.3km | site_ao | ||
| Or Torah Synagogue | 2020 | 37.7km | site_ao | ||
| Mount Tabor | 2019 | 22km | site_ao | ||
| El-Jazzar Mosque | 2019 | 37.7km | site_ao | ||
| Mount Arbel | 2018 | 38.7km | site_ao | ||
| An Ancient Underground Mithraeum in Israel | 2018 | 29.2km | site_ao | ||
| Beit She’arim Necropolis | 2018 | 12.8km | site_ao | ||
| Zodiac Mosaic of Hammat Tiberias | 2018 | 39.3km | site_ao | ||
| Convalescent Home (today: King Solomon Hotel) | 39.3km | site_brutalism | |||
| Soldier’s House (Beit Hachyal) | 1963 | 30.6km | site_brutalism | ||
| Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (today Danciger Laboratories), Technion | 24.6km | site_brutalism | |||
| Leo Baeck School | 32.1km | site_brutalism | |||
| Immigrants Hostel (today The Alfred & Irma Morgenthau Absorption Center) | 17.4km | site_brutalism | |||
| Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of Jewish Renewal | 2015 | 12.8km | site_whs | ||
| Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee | 2008 | 32.5km | site_whs | ||
| Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: The Nahal Me’arot / Wadi el-Mughara Caves | 2012 | 21.9km | site_whs | ||
| Old City of Acre | 2001 | 37.9km | site_whs |
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