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Abstract

The excavation at Migdal, Ashqelon, uncovered remains from the Late Roman–Byzantine, Mamluk, Ottoman and British Mandate periods. It revealed a sequence of architectural remains, suggesting continuous occupation of the site during the thirteenth–fifteenth centuries CE, with a possible abandonment during the sixteenth century. During the seventeenth–eighteenth centuries, the site appears to have been resettled, and in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it underwent renewed construction. From the nineteenth century until the early 1950s, the area was continuously inhabited. Between the 1950s and 1980s, it was occupied by immigrants from North Africa, and by the 1980s, most of its buildings had been demolished. Given the limited number of excavations conducted at Migdal to date, the stratigraphy uncovered in this excavation provides a solid foundation for future studies on the occupation of Ashqelon from the Mamluk period to the twentieth century.

Keywords

Mamluk period, Ottoman period, twentieth century, British Mandate, architectural remains, Great Mosque, quarrying

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