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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Beit She'arim Alternative Name: Besara
Country: Israel
NOTE: This site is 6.486 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Kiryat Tiv'on  Nearest Village: Bait Zaid
Latitude: 32.703209N  Longitude: 35.129154E
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2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Israel

Beit She'arim (Hebrew: בֵּית שְׁעָרִים‎), also known as Beth She'arim or Besara (Greek), is the archeological site of a Jewish town and a large number of ancient rock-cut Jewish tombs. The necropolis is part of the Beit She'arim National Park, which borders the town of Kiryat Tiv'on on the northeast and is located close to the modern moshav of Beit She'arim. It is situated 20 km east of Haifa in the southern foothills of the Lower Galilee. The park is managed by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority.

Beit She'arim was founded at the end of the 1st century BCE, during the reign of KingHerod. It was a prosperous Jewish town until destroyed by fire in 352 CE, at the end of theJewish revolt against Gallus. After some time it was renewed as a Byzantine city. From the early Arab period (7th century CE), settlement was sparse. A small Arab village calledSheikh Bureik was located here in the late 16th century.
The Roman Jewish historian Josephus Flavius referred to the city as Besara, the administrative center of the estates of Queen Berenice in the Jezreel Valley. After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, the Sanhedrin (Jewish legislature and supreme council) moved to Beit She'arim. Rabbi Judah HaNasi, head of the Sanhedrin and compiler of the Mishna, lived there. In the last seventeen years of his life, he moved to Sepphoris for health reasons, but planned his burial in Beit She'arim on land he received as a gift from his friend, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. The most desired burial place for Jews was the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, but in 135 CE, when Jews were barred from the area, Beit She'arim became an alternative.

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Gate Remnant Discovered at Beit She’arim by motist on Saturday, 18 February 2017
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Archaeologists from the University of Haifa were astonished to discover a massive gateway during recent excavations at Beit She’arim in northern Israel, where the Sanhedrin sat in the second century, and where Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi resided.

Half of an impressive northeast-facing gate built of limestone blocks — with postholes for doors and locks, abutting a circular tower situated on a road leading into the ancient town — was found during a dig in the fall of 2016, the university revealed on Wednesday.

“As far as we were aware, a settlement of this type wasn’t supposed to be ringed by a wall, and therefore it was almost obvious that the name Beit She’arim wasn’t connected to the word ‘gate,’” archaeologist Adi Erlich explained. In fact, no gates were ever found there since excavations of the site began in 1936 — until now.

Erlich, who headed the dig, explained why the place was not expected to have a gate, despite its name:

“Most of the settlements in the Roman period weren’t fortified, and certainly not a relatively small Jewish town that wasn’t even considered an official Roman town. There were isolated fortified Jewish towns in the north, like Yodfat, but even those towns that were large and central didn’t include a large and impressive gate like this,” she said.

Why it did have a gate is not known. But Erlich hypothesized that it was an affluent community, and as such built fortifications to surrounds it for security.

“Another possibility is that it’s an important fortress positioned at a Roman-era site, and we exposed its gatehouse,” she said.


This article appeared in print in the February 15th, 2017 edition of Hamodia
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