A substantial museum catalogue of seventy artefacts from the Palaeolithic to the Qumran scrolls of the 2nd century BC arranged in sections devoted to prehistory, Hellenistic, Byzantine, Egyptian, Islamic and numismatic collections.

Aphek was the city capital of the Canaanites until its subjugation by the Egyptians under Amenhotep II in the C15th BC from when it was ruled by an Egyptian governor whose palace excavation is reported here.

The 6000 year-old tomb of a nobleman found in a cave in the Judean Desert sheds new light on burial customs of the Chalcolithic period, exposing aspects of life that were hitherto unknown.  The very act of burial in a remote cave on a high cliff must have required a special effort.