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The excavations in the 1920s of W.F. Albright yielded the settlement layers from the Early, Middle and Late Bronze (Canaanite) periods, as well as the Iron age (Israelite) periods. Tell Beit Mirsim could be identified with Ashan. W.F. Albright who identified it as Kiryat Sepher or Debir (Joshua 15:15).
See:
- William Foxwell Albright: The excavation of Tell Beit Mirsim in Palestine. 3 Bände. Yale University Press, New Haven CT 1932–1943
- Peter Pfälzner: Levantine Kingdoms of the Late Bronze Age, in: Originalveröffentlichung in: A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (eds. D.T. Potts), Oxford 2012, pp. 770-796
- http://www.biblewalks.com/Sites/BeitMirsim.html
- http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Beit_Mirsim.html