Jaffa - Excavations

In the square in front of the monastery in Jaffa and the hill to the east, now laid out as an attractive park (Gan Hapisga), are the excavations which brought to light earlier occupation levels, with a 6m/20ft thick wall of the Hyksos period (18th-16th c. B.C.), a town gate bearing the name of Pharaoh Ramesses II (1290-24 B.C.), remains of a Canaanite town and a Jewish settlement of the fourth century B.C. and relics of the Maccabean and Roman periods.