Click Here to Read: Mysterious 3,800-Year-Old Canaanite Arch and Stairway Unearthed in Israel Researchers don’t know the purpose of the brick arch, which leads to a set of stairs descending deeper underground by Christopher Parker on the Smithsonian website on September 18, 2023.

Tel Shimron – Archaeological excavation June 2017.  Image: Hanay Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons