Word: beisan
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...Beisan, Alan Rowe of the University of Pennsylvania found drain pipes, a grist mill, a circular silo, all indicating a busy city life 3,200 years ago. Pagan temples, tools, utensils, seals and jewelry were signs of Beisan's wealth. It was of such civilization that Jeremiah complained: Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven [Ashtoreth], and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods that...
...Beisan (Old Testament Beth-Shean) the University of Pennsylvania expedition found a sarcophagus inscribed with the name of Phalion, uncle of Herod the Great. Further monuments of the period of Egyptian domination under Rameses II and Seti I give the first corroboration from Egyptian sources of the fact that the Hebrews were at one time enslaved in Egypt, and built cities for Rameses...
Palestine. The University of Pennsylvania mission at Beisan (the Old Testament Bethshean), 55 miles northeast of Jerusalem, has unearthed substantial Egyptian buildings and inscriptions of Seti I and Rameses II (19th dynasty, about 1366 B. C.), suggesting military occupation of Palestine at that time...