Tell el-Hesi
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Tell el-Hesi is an archaeological site in Israel. It was the first major site excavated in Palestine, first by Flinders Petrie in 1890 and later by Frederick Jones Bliss in 1891 and 1892, both sponsored by the Palestine Exploration Fund. Petrie's excavations were one of the first to systematically use stratigraphy and seriation to produce a chronology of the site. While Petrie and Bliss believed that Tell el-Hesi was the Biblical site of Lachish, this hypothesis is no longer accepted.
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