Tel Kabri

Tel Kabri (Hebrew: תל כברי‎) is an archaeological site, home to one of the largest Middle Bronze Age (MBA) Canaanite palaces in Israel.^[5] Named for the abundance of its perennial springs, the presence of Tel Kabri's water sources have led to the site's occupation and use as a water source from the Pottery Neolithic period (PN)^{[nb 2]} to the present day.^[6] Located in the Western Upper Galilee, the site was at its heyday in the MBA when it controlled a large portion of the region. Following the decline of Kabri as a local power at the end of the MBA the site continued to be occupied at times on a much reduced level up until the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Since 1957, Tel Kabri has been excavated by both Israeli antiquities authorities as well as Israeli universities.^[7] Minoan-style frescoes have been found at Kabri's palace,^[8] the only such frescoes ever discovered in Israel.^[9] The oldest and largest known palatial wine cellar in the Ancient Near East was also found at the palace.^[10]

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel Kabri
• Page 92 - Fagan. B.M., 2005, A Brief History of Archawilogy: Classical Times to the Twenty-First Century: Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 278p.