Timnah/Tel Batash

Timnah/Tel Batash - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Timnath or Timnah was a Philistine city in Canaan that is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in and in connection with Samson. Modern archaeologists identify the ancient site with a tell lying on a flat, alluvial plain, located in the Sorek Valley ca. north-west of Beit Shemesh, near moshav Tal Shahar in Israel, known in Hebrew as Tel Batash (תל בטש) or Teluliot Batashi (plural), and in Arabic as Tell Butashi or Teleilat Batashi (plural). The site is not to be confused with either the as yet unidentified Timna from the hill country of Judah (), nor with the southern copper-smelting site of Timna in the Arabah near Eilat. Read more on Wikipedia

type: ancient site
date from: Middle Bronze Age

Source: en.wikipedia.org