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Israel, Tel Dan Ancient City – Canaanite Gate

Three mudbrick arches that span a gateway are the world’s oldest known arches made of this material. The gate, set on sloping earth ramparts, was constructed in the second millennium B.C. as a defense for the Canaanite city of Laish. The site had been occupied since the fifth millennium B.C. and its identified with the biblical Dan and reputed to be where King Jeroboam reinstituted worship of the golden calf in the tenth century B.C. Excavations carried out from 1966 to 1999