Editing Tel Dor (section)

==Excavation history==
[[File:Evandigging.jpg|thumb|250px|Excavations at Tel Dor]]
[[File:Eolianite beach Dor Israel.jpg|thumb|250px|Beach at Tel Dor]]

Tel Dor ("the Ruin of Dor") was first investigated in the 1920s by [[John Garstang]], on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. J. Leibowitz excavated in the lower town around the [[tell (archaeology)|tell]] in the 1950s. From 1979 to 1983, [[Claudine Dauphin]] excavated a church east of the tell. Avner Raban excavated harbour installations and other constructions mainly south and west of the mound in 1979 - 1984. Underwater surveys around the site were carried out by Kurt Raveh, Shelley Wachsman and Saen Kingsley.  [[Ephraim Stern]], of the Institute of Archaeology at the [[Hebrew University]], directed twenty seasons of excavations at the site between 1980 and 2000, in cooperation with the [[Israel Exploration Society]].<ref>STERN, EPHRAIM. “EXCAVATIONS AT DOR, FINAL REPORT: VOLUME I A—AREAS A AND C: INTRODUCTION AND STRATIGRAPHY.” Qedem Reports, vol. 1, 1995, pp. 1–369</ref> The eleven excavation areas opened have revealed a wealth of information about the [[History of the ancient Levant#Iron Age|Iron Age]], [[History of the ancient Levant#Classical Age|Persian, Hellenistic and Early Roman]] periods.