Our trip continued up to one of the sources of the Jordan river - up in the foothills north of the Golan Heights. At one stage the road skirts the demilitarized zone of the Lebanon border.
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| A tributary of the River Jordan - still a strategic resource |
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| Mustard Plant |
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| Mustard - a weed! |
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| One of the city gates - c 1700 BCE. Made, unusually, with adobe. Later abandoned and covered over with earth. Built with techniques proper to desert dwelling people |
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| How it must have looked |
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| The front line - trenches overlooking Lebanon |
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| Remains of a tank left over from the last war |
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| The temple precinct - dated to the 8th century BCE, time of Jereboam but constructed over an earlier temple constructed in the 10th century BCE. Temple sacrifices were offered here. |
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| The Altar |
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