Professor Amihai Mazar is a renowned Israeli archaeologist who currently heads the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The edition offered to the reader is an abridged translation from English of the book Archaeology of the Biblical Land, published in 1990 in the USA, dedicated to archaeological research on the territory of ancient Eretz Yisrael. This is the first such extensive and detailed book in Russian about the research and achievements of biblical archeology over the past forty years. The reader will find in it rich illustrative material - maps, drawings, photographs, etc. - as well as comments including a bibliography, an explanation of special archaeological terms and some realities of Jewish history.