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dutchboycalledjan Says: Tel Bet She'an has been excavated over the past twenty years and is, in our opinion, worth the detour. The city had good access to water and was near a crossing place on the Jordan River - still used. The uncovered city centre has some fine remains of baths, market, public...
If you're into Roman ruins, it's among the best
irvbur Says: The excavations & restoration of the Roman city at Bet Shean is one of the best we've seen anywhere. The streets & theater are perfectly retored.
Bregman Says: The northern baths at the Bet She'an site.
Bregman Says: The Greek goddess of fortune Tyche. This mosaic was actually stolen from the sites. It was found in pieces and needed to be assemlbled back.
Martin_S. Says: Earthquakes destroyed most of Beit Shean, then called Scythopolis in 749CE. These photos graphically show some of the destruction. Floors upheaved, things tumbling this over that, columns toppled and looking like the local bowling alley of the GODS. The last photo shows me...
Martin_S. Says: The Sigma is a semi-circular area with shops or rooms on one side. Many of the rooms are decorated with mosaics and tiles with geometric shapes, animals and even one of Tyche the guardian goddess of this city. What the use of the rooms or shops were is not explained.
Palladius Street, the main drag in town
Martin_S. Says: The main street where everything came together, the "center" of town, the Broadway of Beit Shean.Palladius was the name of the governor of the area and the story goes that the archeologists found an inscription telling about construction during his term, so they named the...
Martin_S. Says: After the theater the most important thing in a Roman life was the bathouse. Again here in Beit Shean there was no stinting on the all important bathouse. From the frigadarium to the tepidarium and on into the hot room its all there, only one problem the floor is missing,...
Martin_S. Says: For sure the Romans loved their entertainment. Almost any settlement of any size had its own elaborate theater and Beit Shean was no exception. Several of the entrance tunnels were cut out of the mountainside and the capitols for the columns on the stage are fine works.
Martin_S. Says: Much of what is still preserved here in Beit Shean is from the Roman period and many of their structures stand out and "stand up" to the process of time. The majority of what is here today is from the period of rebuilding done around 63BC
Bregman Says: A general view of the site. This site is one of the most preserved Roman ruins in Israel.
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The Greek goddess of fortune Tyche. This mosaic was actually stolen from the sites. It was found in pieces and needed to be assemlbled back.
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Tel Beit Shean, history in the diggings
Tel Beit Shean (whose name today is derived from Beishan by which the place became known after its desctruction by earthquake), named Scythopolis by the Romans, is composed of two distinct areas, the...
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The Roman Theatre at Beit Shean. Beit Shean contains one of the most beatiful archeological sites in Israel. The town is located at the Jordan Valley, 30 Kms south of Tiberias. In Roman times it was...
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An ancient city with a glorious past. King Saul and his sons, who lost the battle agains the Philistines at nearby Mt Gilboa, were hung from its city walls. During Greco- Roman period, known as...
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A gem 3 minutes off the main highway
Bet Shean is a site steeped thousands of years in antiquity. But it also sits along the Syrian-African fault line and suffers from occasional severe earthquakes. Its last incarnation came to an end in...
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