Word: beisan
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...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...