Khirbat Amra: A Rural Site from the Hellenistic to Early Islamic Periods in the Be\u2019er Sheva Valley<\/em><\/a> constitutes the final report of the large-scale salvage excavations directed by Gil Tahal on behalf of the IAA in 1993\u20131994 at the site of Khirbat \u2018Amra, in the north-central area of the Be\u2019er Sheva\u201b Valley. The excavations were carried out prior to construction activities within the present-day Omer Industrial Park and revealed architectural remains and finds dated mainly to the Hellenistic until the Early Islamic periods, in addition to scantier remains or isolated finds from the Chalcolithic period, the Iron Age II and the Ottoman period. Khirbat \u2018Amra is one of the largest multiperiod sites in the Be\u2019er Sheva\u201b Valley, specifically in the Byzantine and Early Islamic periods. Furthermore, Tahal\u2019s excavations were the most extensive ones carried out prior to the last decade in a rural site of the classical and Islamic periods in the region. Consequently, the Khirbat \u2018Amra excavations hold the potential to considerably contribute to our knowledge about the history, settlement patterns, material culture and daily life of the region\u2019s population about the third or second century BCE and the ninth or tenth century CE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":720,"template":"","class_list":["post-719","books","type-books","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fulbrightisrael-magazine.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fulbrightisrael-magazine.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fulbrightisrael-magazine.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fulbrightisrael-magazine.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fulbrightisrael-magazine.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}