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About Shiloh
Shiloh was a Canaanite city beginning in about the 18th century BCE. After the Israelites settled the area (around the 13th century BCE), Shiloh became the central national religious shrine. It held this role until it was destroyed, apparently by the Philistines, around 1050 BCE. Within a century,Jerusalemwas chosen as the site for a new central shrine (and has remained the center of Jewish worship ever since). Shiloh was rebuilt some time later, but never regained its former importance. The Byzantine Christians were aware of the site's religious history, and built basilicas whose mosaic floors can still be seen today. After the Six-Day War in 1967, the site came under Israeli rule, and in 1978 a Jewish settlement was established nearby. In the early 2000s, the archaeological site was prep
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