Tel Beit Shemesh

Tel Beit Shemesh from the air
Ain Shems (today known as Tel Beit Shemesh) in the PEF Survey of Palestine c.1880. The pink circles are contemporary villages, and the dotted clear circles are ruins.

Tel Beit Shemesh is a small archaeological tell north west of the modern city of Beit Shemesh.

It was identified in the late 1830s as Biblical Beth Shemesh – it then was known as Ain Shams – by Edward Robinson. The tell was excavated in numerous phases during the 20th century.

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