Sheikh Danun

Sheikh Danun (Arabic: الشيخ دنون‎, Hebrew: שֵּׁיח' דַּנּוּן‎‎); also transliterated as Sheikh Dannun and Sheikh Danon) is an Arab village located in Israel's North District. Since 1948, it has been made up of two old villages - Shaykh Danun and Shaykh Dawud (or Daud, meaning "David") - which were merged, and are now jointly referred to as Sheikh Danun. Located on a hill overlooking the plains of Acre, both of these old villages were built around a tomb for a sheikh, and share a similar history. The history of the site is ancient. Burial chambers dated to the Intermediate Bronze Age were discovered in the north of the modern day village, at the end of a shaft leading from a man-made cave carved into the northern slope of the chalk hill...