[SunkenCiv]

A recent attempt to build over the ancient mound at Tell es-Sakan was the third time the site has been threatened by bulldozers since 1998

[60Gunner]

Good. Make the rest of Gaza disappear under concrete.

[C210N]

Sorry, the subterranean land is sorely needed for tunnels to carry and store scuds, rifles, ammunition... oh, and and connecting passageways under the border.

[BitWielder1]

Why? They still live in the bronze age except for the stuff we give them.

[onedoug]

Well, since there is no “Palestinian” archeology other than Hebrew and Cananite, there’s nothing for the fake-prone arabs to do but to bulldoze everything in sight.

[Verginius Rufus]

Gaza was one of the Philistine cities (the name Palestine comes from the Philistines) but the period of Narmer (3100 B.C.?) would be long before the Philistines settled there. Narmer was only a few centuries before the pyramids, not 1000 years.

Unfortunately this disregard for important archaeological or historical sites is not limited to the Palestinians--many countries are guilty of it. It is a struggle in the United States to preserve Revolutionary War or Civil War battlefields from development.

[Bayard]

Actually knowing a tie in from the end of the Bronze age might shed some light on the people mentioned in Genesis in the Bible.

It has been theorized that the Bronze age collapse also allowed for the settlement and establishment of the kingdom of Israel.