Talk:Dan (ancient city)/Archive 1

Map coords
I'll try to verify that this is it: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Qiryat+Shemona,+Israel&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=16&ll=33.230898,35.621581&spn=0.008418,0.021629&t=h Vonfraginoff 13:37, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Incorrect information

 * "the text appears to contain the letters 'ביתד וד' (BETD WD; the "WD" is at a slight angle, with a sizable gap from the "BETD"), which most archaeologists agree refers to House of David"
 * In fact, there is no such gap in the text whatsoever, as can be clearly seen in the actual image of the Tel Dan Stele.
 * http://www.english.imjnet.org.il/Media/Uploads/Stele-House-of-David.jpg
 * http://www.houseofdavid.ca/4DAVIDBEITbw8.gif
 * The writing BYTDYD unambiguously refers to the 'House of David', bolstered by the fact that in the line directly above, it is written MLK-YSR'L, i.e. Melekh Israel, King of Israel.
 * http://www.einzigartiges-israel.de/ei2v0i/bild/222-tel-dan-stele.jpg
 * —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.68.95.65 (talk) 18:22, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Missing facts
We received the following via OTRS ticket. The person writing in isn't comfortable making the edits themselves, so I told them I would post the information here.
 * Tel Dan is at the Israeli beginning of the mountains that separate Israel and Syria. Israel took much of the land northeast of Tel Dan in the 1967 war.


 * Because of the height of the highest mountain separating the two countries, a lot of snow and rain falls there at different times during each year. Much of the water heading to the southwest of the mountains comes up in springs that surround the area close to Tel Dan. Some of that water actually surfaces very close to Tel Dan, and was one of the main reasons that humans began settling their many thousan of years ago. Those mountain-spring waters at Tel Dan are the highest elevation sources of the water that becomes the Jordan River.

They indicated that the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem could help with verifying this information, though verification may be available via other sources as well. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WikiProject Japan ! 20:02, 15 June 2010 (UTC)