As fortifications and pottery were unearthed, it became clear from the start that the ruins went back to the so - called Iron Age, placing them squarely within the time period of the Biblical Jezreel.
परंतु जसजसे उत्खनन चालू राहिले तसतसे नवनवीन आश्‍चर्यकारक गोष्टी पुढे येऊ लागल्या.