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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/22/biblical-ruin-uncovered-palestine_n_907349.html
Archaeologists Uncover Ancient City of Shechem in West Bank
(AP-Huffington Post) Dutch and Palestinian archaeologists are preparing to open the site of the ancient city of Shechem, in the West Bank city of Nablus, to the public as an archaeological park next year. Shechem, positioned in a pass between the mountains of Gerizim and Eibal, was an important regional center more than 3,500 years ago. As the existing remains show, it lay within fortifications of massive stones, was entered through monumental gates and centered on a temple with walls five yards (meters) thick. The city appears often in the biblical narrative. The patriarch Abraham, for example, was passing near Shechem when God promised to give the land of Canaan to his descendants in the Book of Genesis.