Arsuf becomes Apollonia The Phoenicians or Canaanites founded this ancient city and named it Arsuf (ארשוף – ארסוף) after their god Reshef. During the Hellenistic period it was renamed Apollonia ...
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Khirbet Karta
How many times I drove down the Israel Coast Road #2 and wondered what’s over on those calcareous sandstone ridges at Khirbet Karta on the coast at Atlit. These ridges are fossilized ...
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