A Monumental Hellenistic-Period Ritual Compound in Upper Idumea

In 2017, following nearly a decade’s worth of excavations at the southern Judean Shephelah (Lowland) site of Ḥorbat Beit Lehi, the greater Beit Lehi Regional Project (BLRP) was inaugurated.1 The project comprises a large-scale, multi-disciplinary endeavor that involves the mapping, surveying and pin-pointed excavation of a designated area south of Maresha. Within the research area – encompassing approximately 36 sq km – are numerous archaeological sites ranging in date from the Iron Age II until the Mamluk period, including a net- work of small- and medium-sized forts dating to the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods.
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