Lachish

[ley-kish]

noun

1. a Canaanite city captured by Joshua: now an archaeological site in Israel.

Example Sentences

The comb was found in the ruins of a city called Tel Lachish.

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Tel Lachish was an important city to an ancient people known as the Canaanites.

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The unnamed expert, part of a foreign expedition last summer to the Tel Lachish archaeological site, told officials that she had scratched the words into pottery as a demonstration while explaining to students how artifacts were historically inscribed.

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The artifact had been in storage since 2016, when it was collected from the ruins of the ancient city of Tel Lachish.

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But the Tel Lachish comb was found in a much later archaeological context, and carbon dating failed to determine its exact age, the article notes.

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