Tell el-Far‘ah North is a multi-period settlement approximately 11 km northeast of Nablus in the Samarian highlands, near the springs ‘Ain ad-Dlaid and ‘Ain al-Far‘a. Its position offered access to water and a route connecting the Shechem region with the Jordan Valley. It is distinct from Tell el-Far‘ah South.

Roland de Vaux’s team conducted nine excavation campaigns between 1946 and 1960. The published sequence includes Pre-Pottery Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Early Bronze I–II, Middle Bronze II, Late Bronze and Iron I–II remains. A renewed collaborative project carried out its first field campaign in October 2017. The identification with ancient Tirzah is widely accepted but is still treated by the excavation project as a hypothesis requiring confirmation.

Source: Tell el-Far‘a official archaeological project, geographical setting, previous work and new project sections (consulted 26 October 2026). These statements concern the wider settlement history, not a date assigned to every vessel or context.