Ziklag is the Biblical name of a town that was locate in the Negev region in the south of what was the Kingdom of Judah. Its exact location has not been identified with any certainty, though by the end of the 19th century, both Haluza (by the Wadi-Aslu to the south of Beersheba) and Khirbet Zuheiliqah (located to the north west of Beersheba and south southeast of Gaza city) had been suggested. Ziklag is generally agreed to be a significant corruption of the location's actual name; Haluza was identified as the location on the basis of Ziklag being a corruption of Halusah (slightly clearer in the underlying Hebrew script than in English), meaning fortress; Khirbet Zuheiliqah was identified as the location on the basis of Ziklag being a corruption of Zahaliku, which means downward slopes and is descriptive of Khirbet Zuheilikah's location. The excavators of Tell Zeitah have suggested it as a possible location of Ziklag.