Preliminary Report on the Results of the 2008 Excavation Season at Tel Kabri

Tel Kabri, located in the western Galilee region of modern Israel, was the center of a Canaanite polity during the Middle Bronze Age. Excavations conducted by Aharon Kempinski and Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier from 1986-1993 revealed the remains of a palace dating to the Middle Bronze period (ca. 2000-1550 BCE). Within the building (Fig. 1), dated specifically to the MB II period, were discovered an Aegean-style floor and Aegean-style wall paintings. Kabri is one of only four sites in the Eastern Mediterranean to have such Bronze Age Aegean-style paintings and may well be the earliest.

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