Tell el-Hesi (Hebrew: תל חסי‎), or Tell el-Hesy, is a 25-acre archaeological site in Israel. It was the first major site excavated in Palestine, first by Flinders Petrie in 1890.and later by Frederick Jones Bliss in 1891 and 1892. Petrie identified Tell el-Hesi as the Biblical site of Lachish, and Bliss accepted this identification, but it is no longer accepted. In 1924 William F. Albright proposed that Tell el-Hesi was Biblical Eglon,[2] an identification still accepted by Yohanan Aharoni in the 1970s.[3]