in the eastern Mediterranean world was destroyed, many of them never to be occupied again."

However, more recent research has shown that Drews overestimated the number of destroyed cities and referenced destructions that never happened. According to ancient historian and archaeologist Jesse Millek:

Ann Killebrew has shown that cities such as Jerusalem were significant and important walled settlements in the West Asian Middle Bronze IIB and Iron Age IIC periods (

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