A 4,500-year-old Canaanite temple, believed to be the oldest building ever discovered in the Middle East, has been unearthed near the village of Kinnereth, at the southern and of the Sea of Galilee, by a Jewish Palestine Exploratory Society expedition.
The archaeological expedition has been working three years on the site of Beth Yerach, which apparently was a flourishing, well-populated town during the Roman occupation of Palestine and earlier. It was situated on a small peninsula jutting into the Sea of Galilee near the Jordan River.
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