"Biblical military campaigns reconstructed using" Topic

… geomagnetic field data

"Findings indicate, for example, that the army of Hazael, King of Aram-Damascus, was responsible for the destruction of several cities -- Tel Rehov, Tel Zayit, and Horvat Tevet, in addition to Gath of the Philistines, whose destruction is noted in the Hebrew Bible. At the same time, the study refutes the prevailing theory that Hazael was the conqueror who destroyed Tel Beth-Shean. Other geomagnetic findings reveal that the cities in the Negev were destroyed by the Edomites, who took advantage of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Judah by the Babylonians…"

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True blue cities or hyped villages?

City is a term used for population centers with walls. Village is a term for a population center without walls. A study of maps of the era and region often show sizes.