Quick Visit To Shiloh Antiquities

I was at the Tel today with a very old friend.

An overview of Shiloh before we Jews returned:



And here's another overview, from 1920:



This is a steel engraving drawn by W. H. Bartlett, engraved by C. Cousen. ca 1850 of a site we refer to as Qubat A-Shakinah (Dome of the Divine Presence) or Jam'a A-Seitin ('Group of the Sixty', referring to 60 warriors in the Persian-Arab battle here in 638):



(found here)

And here you can see in the lower center of this picture, the original lintel which appears in the engraving above:



Here's a 1920 photograph (it's actually a double as it's from the old stereoscopy style where two pictures were presented just a bit different to each eye which allowed a 3-D effect. My Uncle Arthur has a whole set from "Palestine" from over 100 years ago. Here are some others. And here are others.)



a view from several decades ago:



and this is what that structure looks like today:


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and here is another structure, closer to the Tel, Wali Yeitin (you are looking from the north towards the south-west with the Muslim building at the extreme left with the famous fig tree to its right. Under that building, we discovered a very large Byzantine basilica from about 400 CE, one of the first to be built in Eretz-Yisrael):



and this is what it looked like in 1920 from the north where the Tel is: