HIGH TECH/SCIENTIFIC ISRAELNew technology prooves that unearthed remains of massive fortifications built during the Iron Age are connected to events mentioned in the Book of Isaiah. The ruins appear to have a connection to Assyria’s takeover of the region. The fortifications appear to protect an artificial harbor,” Tel Aviv University’s Alexander Fantalkin, leader of the excavations at the Ashdod-Yam archaeological dig, said in a news release issued Monday. “If so, this would be a discovery of international significance, the first known harbor of this kind in our corner of the Levant.”
The discovery was announced at the end of the first excavation season at Ashdod-Yam in the contemporary coastal city of Ashdod, just south of Tel Aviv. At the heart of the fortifications is a mud-brick wall measuring more than 12 feet wide (3.6 meters wide) in some places, and 15 feet (4.5 meters) high. The wall is covered in layers of mud and sand that stretch for hundreds of feet on either side.
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