Korzhenkov and Mazor (2003) identified evidence for two earthquakes during their archaeoseismic survey of Mamshit, dating the second event to the seventh century CE. Earlier archaeological interpretations by Negev (1974:412) and Negev (1988) had suggested that Mampsis was destroyed by human agency and had ceased to exist “long before the official Arab conquest of the Negev” around 634 CE. Subsequent research, however, revised this view. Excavations and analyses by Tali Erickson-Gini demonstrated that occupation at Mamshit continued beyond the mid-fifth century CE, while Magness (2003) observed that pottery and Arabic graffiti indicate occupation “continued through the late sixth century and into the seventh century.” These later findings provide a cultural and chronological framework compatible with the seventh-century earthquake proposed by Korzhenkov and Mazor.