Tel Beit Shemesh

Tel Beit Shemesh is a small archaeological tell north west of the modern city of . It was identified in the late 1830s as Biblical Beth Shemesh – it then was known as Ain Shams – by Edward Robinson.
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  • Mound rising to around 230 metres (770 feet)
  • Description: hill in Jerusalem District, Israel
  • Also known as
    “Beit Shemesh”
    “Beth Shemesh”
    “Tel Bet Shemesh”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Beit Shemesh Railway Station and Biblical Museum of Natural History.
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Railway station
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Museum
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yish’i and Beit Shemesh.
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Village
Yish'i is a moshav in central .
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is a city in the Shfela region of , with a population of 119,000.
Village
is a kibbutz in central .

Tel Beit Shemesh

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Latitude
31.7508° or 31° 45′ 3″ north
Longitude
34.97487° or 34° 58′ 30″ east
Open location code
8G3PQX2F+8W
Geo­Names ID
293386
Wiki­data ID
Q12412084

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Tel Beit Shemesh” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Tel Bet Shemesh”
  • Dutch: “Tel Bet Shemesh”
  • French: “Tel de la maison de Shemesh”
  • Hebrew: “תל בית שמש”
  • Persian: “تل بیت شمش”
  • Russian: “Тель Бейт-Шемеш”
  • Russian: “Тель Бет-Шемеш”
  • Swedish: “Tel Bet Shemesh”

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