article_snippet: The excavation is the first to offer evidence of an ‘Egyptian occupation’ in the centre of Tel Aviv 5,000 years ago.
article_snippet: This is also the northernmost evidence we have of an Egyptian presence in the early Bronze Age.
article_snippet: Until now we were only aware of an Egyptian presence in the northern Negev and southern coastal plain, whereby the northernmost point of Egyptian occupation occurred in Azor.
article_snippet: The tomb of Khonso Em Heb, who lived 3,200 years ago, was found by a Japanese team and has been been described as 'one of the most important discoveries' made at a building site in Tel Aviv.
article_snippet: This one dates to the Early Bronze Age
article_snippet: This is also the northernmost evidence we have of an Egyptian presence in the Early Bronze Age.
highlights_snippet: Finds are first to prove an Egyptian occupation in Tel Aviv 5,000 years ago .