Some of the most important were made by the University of Chicago's expedition that ran from to The story behind the expedition is documented in Cline's book. One of the expedition's more famous discoveries was a series of "stables," which the excavators thought were built by King Solomon today, most archaeologists believe that someone other than Solomon built them.
Related: New clues to King Solomon's mines found. Another important find made by the Chicago expedition was the "Megiddo Ivories" — about ivory objects found beside human and animal burials. Some of the ivories have Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions on them, such as an ivory pen case which says that it belongs to an Egyptian official named "Nakht-Amon" who was a "king's messenger" during the reign of pharaoh Ramses III — B.
Other ivory objects include gaming boards, combs and boxes. The purpose of the large number of ivory goods is a source of debate among scholars, with one possibility being that they are part of a burial. According to the researchers' reconstruction published in the American Journal of Archaeology in , the main building of the Great Temple includes an enormous, rectangular room with two corridors behind it. The researchers also found evidence of cultic activity that took place at the temple.
Basalt slabs found inside the temple "appear to have been essential elements in the cult, probably acting as tables for offerings or for placing cult fetishes," the researchers reported. The "Great Temple has proven to be the most monumental structure of the period" in that area of the Eastern Mediterranean, the researchers wrote. As a site of so many battles, it's not surprising that multiple archaeological finds reveal that Megiddo was heavily fortified at times.
The Chicago expedition found an elaborate series of gates that they believed dated to the time of King Solomon, or about — B. Later Christian theologians interpreted this as meaning that this would be the site of the showdown between the forces of good and evil, which will obviously end with the victory of God and the good. The most common interpretation is that John was mangling the words har Megiddo, that is, "Mount Megiddo. The view from Megiddo. The identification of the town of Megiddo with the site of apocalypse has some merit, since it is mentioned several times in the Bible, tellingly, as the site of several epic battles, such as the Israelites vs.
In the latter struggle, King Josiah , who the bible explicitly calls the best of the Judean kings, was killed:. King Josiah marched out to meet him in battle, but Necho faced him and killed him at Megiddo " 2 Kings There is no mountain at Megiddo.
At most the site could be called a small hill, or more accurately, a tell. In fact, when the Bible actually refers to a geographic feature related to Megiddo, it is not a mountain but a valley:.
Perhaps John got just got that fact wrong. Or maybe he thought the valley would become a mountain. It is unclear.
A scholar named John Day , writing in , has suggested that John mixed the eschatological message of Zechariah , which features Megiddo, with the text of Ezekiel 38 and 39 , which does feature a mountain, albeit not Megiddo:. So it seems that we will have to wait for the apocalypse or Armageddon in order to find out what exactly John meant.
If evangelical supporters of U. President Donald Trump have their way, and his decision to move the U. In ancient times Megiddo was an important city, appearing even in Egyptian hieroglyphs, most likely because it had an important strategic position, dominated as a primary means of communication in the Jezreel Valley.
It was one of the major stations on the road that followed the armies of Egypt towards Syria. It is a valuable archaeological site, a hill with 26 layers of ruins of ancient settlements, known for its historical, theological and geographical reasons. As told in the Bible, this place, the Jezreel Valley, will take center stage pass Armageddon or the final battle between the forces of light, directed by Jesus Christ, and of darkness, led by Satan or the Antichrist Revelation , Revelation The word Armageddon comes from the Hebrew expression meaning Mount Megiddo.
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