A monumental burial complex from an Amarna-age port at Yavneh-Yam, Israel

Shirly Ben-Dor Evian; Assaf Yasur-Landau; Israel Finkelstein; Meir Edrey; Gilad Itach

doi:10.15184/aqy.2025.10204

A monumental burial complex from an Amarna-age port at Yavneh-Yam, Israel

Shirly Ben-Dor Evian
, Assaf Yasur-Landau
, Israel Finkelstein
, Meir Edrey
, Gilad Itach

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Abstract

Despite its geographic correspondence with a key fourteenth-century BC port, the tell of Yavneh-Yam has yielded only meagre evidence for Late Bronze Age occupation. The recent discovery of a sealed monumental rock-cut burial cave with hundreds of grave goods provides the first clear evidence for a significant polity.

Original language	English
Article number	e55
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	99
Issue number	408
Early online date	Sep 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10204
State	Published - 1 Dec 2025

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Keywords

Late Bronze Age
South-west Asia
anchorage
burial cave

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Archaeology
General Arts and Humanities

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A monumental burial complex from an Amarna-age port at Yavneh-Yam, Israel

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