the exile of the residents of Judea and
Samaria to Assyria and Babylon between the
years 721 and 586 BCE.
The electronic map in the museum illustrates
the routes taken by the exiles through the
five stages of dispersion, and alternately
the routes travelled by those returning to
Zion in the days of Koresh (538 BCE) and the
days of Ezra and Nehemia (middle of the 5 th
century BCE).
