David Ussishkin is an Israeli archaeologist. Now retired (2005) as Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, Ussishkin has directed and co-directed important excavations at a variety of sites, including Lachish, Jezreel and Megiddo.
In 1968 he undertook the first complete survey of the First Temple period rock-cut tombs in ancient Israel atop which the village of Silwan was built.
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