History of Hebron

Archaeological excavations reveal traces of strong fortifications dated to the Early Bronze Age. Covering some 24-30 dunams centered around Tell er-Reumeidah,the city flourished in the 17th-18 centuries before being destroyed in a conflagration, and resettled in the late Middle Bronze Age. Hebron was originally a Canaanite royal city. Abrahamic legend associates the city with the Hittites. It has been conjectured that Hebron might have been the capital of Shuwardata of Gath, an Indo-European contemporary of Jerusalem's regent, Abdi-Kheba., although the Hebron