Bab edh-Dhra
- Date
- 1924 · confidence high
- Place
- Bab edh-Dhra, Dead Sea, Jordan
- Credited to
- William F. Albright
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
The site of an Early Bronze Age city near the Dead Sea, in modern Jordan, discovered in 1924 during an expedition led by archaeologist William F. Albright; linked by some researchers to the biblical «cities of the plain».
What it led to
- Systematic excavations of the Bronze Age in the southern Levant
- Debate over its identification with destroyed biblical cities
- Contribution to knowledge of early Canaanite necropolis and urbanism