park" was built, on the land that was used by the village for cereals framing, in the valley on the south east of the built-up area of the village. The Industrial park has since expanded, with a large IKEA superstore opening in 2020, and an Amazon Web Services data center due to open in 2023. During the development work in the area, several Archaeological excavations took place, and finds were uncovered, from prehistoric and protohistoric periods to the Ottoman period, confirming that human settlement in the Sar'a Tell began in the pre-Ceramic Neolithic II period, and dates to about 9000 BC and continued, more or less continuously, from then until the demolition of the village in 1949. Landmarks Sar'a had two shrines, one of which is still standing. The first one, destroyed in the 1950s, belonged to al-Nabi Samat, and the other for an unknown individual. The village has several khirbas (ruined former settlements) including Khirbat al-Tahuna, where the ruins of a building constructed of ashlars (squared stone masonry) and the foundations of other buildings. See also Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel References Bibliography (p. 334) (p. 904) Quarterly statement - Palestine Exploration Fund Volume: 7-8 (1875): ( p. 211 ) (pp. 339, 343, 365 ) (p. 18 ) (p. 444) External links Welcome to Sar'a Sar'a, Zochrot Lost shrines, Maqam Neby or Sheikh Samat Survey of Western Palestine, Map 17: IAA, Wikimedia commons Sar'a from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War District of Jerusalem