Shiloh, Israel Tourism

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important shrine, for it was here that the Tabernacle containing the Ark of the Covenant stood for a hundred years from about 1175 B.C. (Joshua 18,1). Here Samuel was called to be a prophet (1 Samuel 3). After the battle of Eben-ezer the Ark of the Covenant was carried off by the Philistines (1 Samuel 4,11) and the town was destroyed. In the 10th century B.C. Shiloh was the abode of the prophet Ahijah, who prophesied to Jeroboam that after Solomon's death he would be the first king of the northern kingdom of Israel (1 Kings, 29-37).

Excavations by Danish archeologists from 1926 onwards brought to light a temple of the Canaanite period and a mosaic pavement from a Byzantine church. Adjoining the site is the Mosque of the Sixty (Djami Sittin).