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Todd Bolen/bibleplaces.com

Disrupting the perfectly ovoid shape of the Megiddo tell, large grass-covered mounds of soil extend from either side—two steep ridges separated by a deep valley on the left and a third long hill on the right. These dumps of excavated soil left by University of Chicago archaeologists in the 1930s may contain a wealth of overlooked small finds that wet-sifting could reveal.