pieces. There was no reason for them to be broken since they were protected by the walls of the tomb. Bethshan (Tell el-Husn), a town near Mount Gilboa in Israel, has been occupied almost continually since Chalcolithic times (ca. 5000–3200 B.C.). This view is from the Roman theatre. (W. S. LaSor) The most important type of covered ruin is that in which we find the remains of several towns one on top of the other. To us moderns this is strange. But in the ancient world, when a walled town was burned,