Ai - Et-Tell - Samaria & Center
Aerial from north
The site of et-Tell is a prominent ruin that is usually identified as biblical Ai. Archaeological excavations though have shown that et-Tell was inhabited from 3000-2400 B.C. and again after 1200 B.C., but not during the time of Joshua's Conquest (1400 B.C.). Resorting to a "late date" theory of the Conquest does not solve the problem.
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