Editing Tel Hazor (section)

{{Short description|Archeological site of an ancient city in Israel}}
{{Other uses|Hazor (disambiguation){{!}}Hazor}}
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 |name        = Tel Hazor
 |native_name = {{Script/Hebrew|תל חצור}}
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 |location    = Tell el-Qedah, Israel
 |region      = [[Upper Galilee]]
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 |abandoned   = 732&nbsp;BC
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| designation1           = WHS
| designation1_offname   = Biblical Tells&nbsp;– [[Megiddo (place)|Megiddo]], Hazor, [[Tel Be'er Sheva|Beer Sheba]]
| designation1_date      = 2005 <small>(29th [[World Heritage Committee|session]])</small>
| designation1_number    = [https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1108 1108]
| designation1_criteria  = ii, iii, iv, vi
| designation1_type      = Cultural
| designation1_free1name = Region
| designation1_free1value= [[List of World Heritage Sites in Asia and Australasia|Asia-Pacific]]
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'''Tel Hazor''' ({{langx|he|תל חצור}}), also '''Chatsôr''' ({{langx|he|חָצוֹר}}), translated in [[LXX]] as '''Hasōr''' ({{langx|grc|Άσώρ}}),<ref name = Gauthier24/><ref name = Budge1021/> named in [[Arabic]] '''Tell Waqqas''' / '''Tell Qedah el-Gul'''<ref name=ShalevBar>{{cite journal |last1=Shalev |first1=Yiftah |last2=Bar |first2=Shay |title=An 8th Century B.C.E. Israelite Administrative Centre at Tell el-Asawir/Tel 'Esur |pages=123–144 |journal=Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins |publisher=Harrassowitz |volume=133 |number=2 |year=2017 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324561697 |access-date=12 July 2021}}</ref> ({{langx|ar|تل القدح|Tell el-Qedah}}), is an archaeological [[Tell (archaeology)|tell]] at the site of ancient '''Hazor''', located in [[Israel]], [[Upper Galilee]], north of the [[Sea of Galilee]], in the northern [[Korazim Plateau]].  From the Middle Bronze Age (around 1750 BCE) to the Iron Age (ninth century BCE), Hazor was the largest fortified city in the region and one of the most important in the [[Fertile Crescent]]. It maintained commercial ties with [[Babylon]] and Syria, and imported large quantities of tin for the bronze industry. In the [[Book of Joshua]], Hazor is described as "the head of all those kingdoms" ({{bibleverse|Josh.|11:10}}) and archaeological excavations that have emphasized the city's importance.

The Hazor expedition headed by [[Yigal Yadin]] in the mid-1950s was the most important dig undertaken by [[Israel]] in its early years of statehood. Tel Hazor is the largest archaeological site in northern Israel, featuring an upper tell of 30 acres and a lower city of more than 175 acres.<ref name="biblicalarchaeology">{{cite web|url=http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/news/scorched-wheat-may-provide-answers-on-the-destruction-of-canaanite-tel-hazor/ |title=Scorched Wheat May Provide Answers on the Destruction of Canaanite Tel Hazor - Biblical Archaeology Society |publisher=biblicalarchaeology.org|access-date=2015-09-03|date=2012-07-24 }}</ref>

In 2005, the remains of Hazor were designated a [[World Heritage Site]] by [[UNESCO]] as part of the ''Biblical Tels—Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba''.