The archaeologist and lecturer Prof. Trude Dothan was born in 1922 in Vienna, Austria, to Greta Wolfe Krakauer, a painter, and the architect and artist Leopold Krakauer.
In 1925 she immigrated with her family to Palestine.
Trude Dothan and Yigael Yadin in the 1950s at Tel Hazor
(photo: courtesy of the Dothan family).
Anthropoid (human-like) coffins from Deir el-Balah, clay, Late Bronze Age (1550–1200 BCE), Hecht Museum, University of Haifa.
Prof. Trude Dothan was awarded the Israel Prize for her archaeological research of the Land of Israel.
Dothan directed archaeological excavations in Israel at a number of sites: Tel Hazor, En Gedi, Deir el-Balah, Tel Miqne (Ekron) and in Cyprus
Served as the director of the Phillip and Muriel Berman Center for Biblical Archaeology at the Hebrew University.
Dothan excavated at Deir el-Balah, where a Canaanite-Egyptian assemblage was found along with a large number of anthropoid (human-like) coffins, which are on permanent display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and the Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa.
Milestones in the life of Prof. Trude Dothan
The archaeologist and lecturer Prof. Trude Dothan was born in 1922 in Vienna, Austria. In 1925 she immigrated with her family to Palestine.
