Talk:Heshbon
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Tell-Hisban has earliest occupation starting at about 1250 to 900 bc with possible Reubenite habitation, as anwalled village.
Other unidentified nearby sites such as Tell al Umayri, and Tell Jalul give early pottery signs of occupation from the middle, and late bronze ages, and up into the Iron age. These two are the more likely contendors for the Heshbon of Sihon's time.
However, Tell-Hisban is the same Heshbon as that which Mesha the king of Moab mentions (c.800's bc).
