Israel – Biblical tells at Megiddo, Hazor and Beer Sheba

After a long week away for spring holiday I was back and received a lot of stamps and postcards on my favourite topic, UNESCO World Heritage stamps. I am so happy. Bellow is the 2005 Israeli stamp set on Biblical Telss, Hazor and Beer Sheba. It seems to me that the Israel stamps always have tabs.

Tells, or pre-historic settlement mounds, are characteristic of the flatter lands of the eastern Mediterranean, particularly Lebanon, Syria, Israel and Eastern Turkey. Of more than 200 tells in Israel, Megiddo, Hazor and Beer Sheba are representative of tells that contain substantial remains of cities with biblical connections. The three tells also present some of the best examples in the Levant of elaborate Iron Age, underground water collecting systems, created to serve dense urban communities. Their traces of construction over the millennia reflect the existence of centralized authority, prosperous agricultural activity and the control of important trade routes.