Israeli archaeologists unveiled Wednesday what may be the earliest fortified settlement in the Golan Heights, from the time of King David about 3,000 years ago, according to reports.

The fortress, found near the Jewish settlement of Hispin during excavation work to build a new neighborhood, is believed to have belonged to the Geshurites, King David’s allies, Agence France-Presse reported.

Barak Tzin, who co-directed the dig for the Israel Antiquities Authority, said workers at the 10,000-square-foot site found a large stone with an engraving of two horned figures with outstretched arms and a statue of a woman holding a musical instrument.

“That also links us to finds from the Iron Age,” Tzin said, noting similar items unearthed in Bethsaida, “a site linked to the capital of the Geshur kingdom” west of Hispin on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee.

He said there is source material indicating “family ties” between the Geshur kingdom and the kingdom of David.

The newly discovered fortress dating back to around the 11th to the 9th century BCE adds a rare “piece to the puzzle” of Golan archaeology, Tzin told AFP.

“This phenomenon might be more widespread than we know. Golan research is not yet at a high level … We’re only beginning to rediscover the Golan now,” he said.

Ron Be’eri, the Israel Antiquities Authority’s scientific adviser, told the Times of Israel that just which people manned the fort — built of large basalt boulders — is still an open question.

“The minute that Egyptian and Hittite empires are destroyed … there is a big vacuum,” Be’eri told the outlet.

“There is no historian that writes the history of the era and we return to a sort of ‘pre-history’ in which we only have physical artifacts to base our assumptions upon,” he said.

“So we go into the realm of speculation. It is impossible to know what really happened,” Be’eri added.