Ancient ruins at En-Gedi Oasis - Area Z at Tel Goren

Recent research publications

Publications on En-Gedi by members of the En-Gedi Oasis Archaeological Project

Davidovich, U., Mashiach, A., Terem, S., Hadas, G., Wachtel, I., Ahipaz, N., Ullman, M., Jackson-Tal, R. E., Peleg-Barkat, O., Marom, N. & Porat, R. (2025). Cenotaph Hill: An Unknown ‘Mound’ in the En-Gedi Oasis. Palestine Exploration Quarterly

Mashiach, A., & Davidovich, U. (2024). Revisiting Late Iron Age En-Gedi: A Stratigraphic Reassessment of Stratum V at Tel Goren. Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research, 392(1), 179–205.

Davidovich, U., Wachtel, I., Halevi, R., Zidon, R., Lazagabaster, I. A., Rovelli, V., Meiri, M., Porat, R., Ullman, M., Jacobi, Y., Ilany, A., Marom, N. & Porat, N. (2024). Leopard traps in the Judean Desert reveal long-term impact of humans on top predator populations. Quaternary Science Reviews, 333, 108667.

Mashiach, A. (2024). The Judean Desert during the Late Iron Age: A View from En-Gedi, in New Studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and its Region Collected Papers Vol. 17, eds. O. Peleg-Barkat, Y. Zelinger, Y. Gadot & Y. Shalev, Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 387–407. (Hebrew with English abstract).

Mashiach, A., & Davidovich, U. (2023). The En-Gedi Spring Site and the Judahite Expansion into the Judaean Desert in the Late Iron Age. Tel Aviv, 50(1), 21–43.

Davidovich, U. (2023). The En Gedi Shrine and the Cave of the Treasure: Disentangling the Entangled. In “And in Length of Days Understanding”(Job 12: 12) Essays on Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond in Honor of Thomas E. Levy, eds. E. Ben-Yosef & I. W. N. Jones, Cham: Springer International Publishing, 205–217.

Lazagabaster, I. A., Ullman, M., Porat, R., Halevi, R., Porat, N., Davidovich, U., & Marom, N. (2021). Changes in the large carnivore community structure of the Judean Desert in connection to Holocene human settlement dynamics. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 3548.

Further Reading

Mazar, B., & Dunayevsky, I. (1964). En-Gedi: Third Season of Excavations: Preliminary Report, Israel Exploration Journal, 14(3), 121–130.

Mazar B., Dothan T. & Dunayevsky I. (1966). En–Gedi: The First and Second Seasons of Excavations 1961–1962 (ʿAtiqot 5). Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.

Mazar, B., & Dunayevsky, I. (1967). En-Gedi: Fourth and Fifth Seasons of Excavations Preliminary Report, Israel Exploration Journal, 17(3): 133–143.

Mazar, B. (1993). En-Gedi, in The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, ed. E. Stern, New York: Simon & Schuster, 399–405.

Stern, E. (2007). En-Gedi Excavations I: Conducted by B. Mazar and I. Dunayevsky; Final Report (1961–1965). Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.