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Khirbet Kurkush
Khirbet Kurkush (Arabic: خربة قرقش) is an Archaeological site, archeological site in the West Bank. It lies between the Israeli settlements of Brukhin, Bruchin and Ariel (Israeli settlement), Ariel and near the Palestinian town of Bruqin, in the Salfit Governorate of the State of Palestine. The site was inhabited mostly during the Hellenistic period, Hellenistic, Roman Empire, Roman, and Byzantine Empire, Byzantine periods, from which impressive remnants of structures and quarries still survive. However, there have been findings from earlier times, such as the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria), Iron Age, as well as later ones, such as the Middle Ages. There are several nearby Rock-cut tombs in ancient Israel, rock-cut tombs, some of which are lavishly decorated, that resemble similar Jews, Jewish tombs of Jerusalem Jerusalem during the Second Temple Period, during the late Second Temple period. Archeologists disagree on whether Jews, Samaritans, or Paganism, pagan groups used th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palestine Grid
The Palestine grid was the geographic coordinate system used by the Survey Department of Palestine. The system was chosen by the Survey Department of the Government of Palestine in 1922. The projection used was the Cassini-Soldner projection. The central meridian (the line of longitude along which there is no local distortion) was chosen as that passing through a marker on the hill of Mar Elias Monastery south of Jerusalem. The false origin (zero point) of the grid was placed 100 km to the south and west of the Ali el-Muntar hill that overlooks Gaza city. The unit length for the grid was the kilometre; the British units were not even considered. At the time the grid was established, there was no intention of mapping the lower reaches of the Negev Desert, but this did not remain true. Those southern regions having a negative north-south coordinate then became a source of confusion, which was solved by adding 1000 to the northern coordinate in that case. For some military pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
