i24 News reports that a city gate dated to the Early Bronze Age has been unearthed in southern Israel at Tel Erani by a team of researchers led by Emily Bischoff of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

The gate consists of a 5,500-year-old passageway made of large, imported stones and thousands of mud bricks. Its presence at the site suggests that the process of urbanization began earlier than previously thought.

“It’s the first time people go from living all over the region to living inside the city walls,” Bischoff said. The Tel Erani gate is about 300 years older than the gate at Tel Arad, another site in the region.

source archaeology.org

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