Khirbet Kheibar

Khirbet Kheibar
	Shown within the West Bank
Alternative name	Tell Kheibar
Location	West Bank
Coordinates	32°21′07″N 35°16′37″E / 32.35194°N 35.27694°E
Grid position	176/195 PAL
Type	fortified tell
Area	35 acres (14 ha)
Height	423 m (1,388 ft)
History
Periods	Middle Bronze Age to Medieval period
Cultures	Canaanite, Israelite, Mesopotamian, Roman, Byzantine, Arab
Site notes
Condition	In ruins

Khirbet Kheibar (Arabic: خربة خَيْبَر; Hebrew: ח'ירבת חייבר) or Tell Kheibar is an archaeological site located in the western outskirts of the Sanur Valley, West Bank.^[1] A fortified tell, it includes the remains of an ancient walled city that for some periods grew beyond the walls. At the site, pottery from the Middle Bronze Age and the Medieval period, peaking in the Iron Age, has been found, along with bowls and figurine fragments.^[1]

The site is also notable because of local peasant folklore from the 19th century that linked it to an earlier Jewish population, that may have been related to the Jews of Khaybar.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c Zertal, Adam (2004), "Sanur Valley: Landscape Unit 4", The Manasseh Hill Country Survey, Volume I: The Shechem Syncline, vol. I, Brill, pp. 241–242, 233, doi:10.1163/9789047413523_013, ISBN 978-90-474-1352-3, S2CID 239228384, retrieved 2023-05-31

[Zertal2004-1] Zertal, Adam (2004), "Sanur Valley: Landscape Unit 4", The Manasseh Hill Country Survey, Volume I: The Shechem Syncline, vol. I, Brill, pp. 241–242, 233, doi:10.1163/9789047413523_013, ISBN 978-90-474-1352-3, S2CID 239228384, retrieved 2023-05-31

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