Husham mound

Husham mound is a peak in , and has an elevation of 370 metres. Husham mound is situated nearby to the suburb , as well as near the quarter .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Beit Jimal and Tel Beit Shemesh.

Monastery
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or Beit Jamal is a Catholic monastery run by priests and brothers near , . The Christian tradition identifies the site with the Roman- and Byzantine-era Jewish village of Caphargamala, and believe that inside a cave in the area, there is the tomb of Saint Stephen or to have conserved his relics.

Archaeological site
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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.

Archaeological site
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, also known as Elah Fortress and in Hebrew as Horbat Qayafa, is the site of an ancient fortress city overlooking the and dated to the first half of the 10th century BCE.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Beit Shemesh and Zekharia.

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is a city in the Shfela region of , with a population of 119,000. Excluding the , is the closest city to .

Village
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is a moshav in central . It sits on the site of the previous Palestinian village of Zakariyya, whose inhabitants were expelled in 1949 in the wake of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Village
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or Sedot Mikha is a moshav in central . Located to the west of , it is under the jurisdiction of the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 348.

Husham mound

Latitude
31.7285° or 31° 43′ 43″ north
Longitude
34.9535° or 34° 57′ 13″ east
Elevation
370 metres (1,214 feet)
Open location code
8G3PPXH3+9C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2453985205
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
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In Other Languages

“Husham mound” goes by many names.
  • Hebrew: “חורבת חושם”

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