Tell Ti'inik
It is located in the village of Ti'inik, to the northwest of the city of Jenin, about 8 km away from the city, and about 8 km to the southeast of Tell al-Mutaslim (Tell Megiddo). The site's history dates back to the early Bronze Age (first, second, and third), where fortifications were observed in the third Bronze Age. The reports show that the settlement continued at the site in the subsequent periods of the Iron Age and the Roman period (there are remains of Roman bathhouses at the site), and there are remains of an early Islamic cemetery and remains of traces dating back to the Abbasid period as well. Ti'inik was mentioned in the ancient Egyptian scripts in 1350 BC, and it was also mentioned in the writings of Tell El-Amarna, as one of the Canaanite cities that Thutmose the Third occupied in his military campaign in 1468 BC.The historian Eusebius in the fourth century AD mentioned that the city was administratively affiliated to Megiddo, as it was occupied again by Pharaoh Shoshenq the first in 918 BC.
In the sixties of the last century, between (1963-1968), an American mission led by Paul W. Lapp carried out excavations at the site, where he worked for three different seasons in the years 1963, 1966, and 1968 for about 22 weeks, where the remains of fortifications, two clay tablets containing cuneiform writing and a ritual monument were found at the site.
A third excavation was executed at the site through the Institute of Archeology at Birzeit University in 1982, where research was done on the village and the eastern side of the hill to explore the Mamluk and Ottoman villages. As a result, ethnographic and anthropological study of the village and the site continued for several seasons between 1982, 1985, and 1987 under Albert Gluck, the Director General of the Institute of Archeology at Birzeit University. Tell Ti'inik is considered one of the paramount sites in Jenin due to its location between Tell Jenin and Tell Al-Mutaslim. However, it requires more studies to complete the picture of the nature of the development of human presence in the region in different periods, which creates a wide range for comparison with other sites surrounding it.