Beit She'an
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Beit She'an, also known as Beisan, or Beth-shean, is a city in the Northern District of Israel. The town lies at the Beit She'an Valley about 120 m below sea level. In 2022, 98% of the population was
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Archaeological excavation at Tell Beth Shean in 1937. The town is seen at the top half of the picture
Ancient ruins of Beit She'an
House of the Egyptian governor on Tell el-Husn
Decapolis
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The Decapolis was a group of ten Greek Hellenistic cities on the eastern frontier of the Greek and late Roman Empire in the Southern Levant in the first centuries BC and AD. Most of the cities were lo
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…Scythopolis (Ancient Greek: Σκυθόπολις). After the region came under Roman rule, Scythopolis gained imperial free status and was the leading city of the Decapolis. A multi-cultural metropolis under Byzantine rule, it served as the capital of the province of Palaestina Secunda, and had a mixed population of…
Roman theatre and cardo of Scythopolis (Beit She'an, Israel)
The oval forum and cardo of Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan)
The Decapolis at the time of Pliny the Elder and before 106 A.D