page_title: Malha
section_title: Antiquity
hierarchical_section_title: Malha / History / Antiquity
caption_attribution_description: English: Bronze Age settlement excavated in Malcha, Israel. Located between Kanyon Malha and Teddy Stadium.
context_page_description: Malha is a neighborhood in southwest Jerusalem, between Pat, Ramat Denya and Kiryat Hayovel in the Valley of Rephaim. Before 1948, Malha was a Palestinian Arab village known as al-Maliha.
context_section_description: Excavations in Malha revealed Intermediate Bronze Age domestic structures. A dig in the Rephaim Valley carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the region of the Malha shopping mall and Biblical Zoo uncovered a village dating back to the Middle Bronze Age II B (1,700 – 1,800 BCE). Beneath this, remains of an earlier village were found from the Early Bronze Age IV (2,200 – 2,100 BCE).
  According to the archaeologists who excavated there in 1987–1990, Malha is believed to be the site of Manahat, a Canaanite town on the northern border of the Tribe of Judah (Joshua 15:59). Remains of the village have been preserved at the Biblical Zoo.
caption: Bronze Age settlement excavated in Malcha, between Kanyon Malha and Teddy Stadium
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