On Thursday, May 8, 2025, students from the Department of Land of Israel Studies at Kinneret Academic College participated in an field trip to a Roman road excavation recently discovered between the foothills of the Nazareth Mountains and the Tur’an Valley.
A recent paper titled “The Fifth Milestation from Tiberias: A Newly Discovered Milestone in the Gennesaret Valley Illumines the Roman Arterial Network” was published in the Palestine Exploration Quarterly journal by Ofer Stein.
A recent study titled “Between Gaulanitis and Hippos: The Roman Road in the Southern Golan Heights in Context” was published in the Tel Aviv journal by Adam Pažout, Michael Eisenberg, and Mechael Osband.
Recently, a paper was published in the Aram periodical, written by Chaim Ben David and Ofer Stein, focusing on the roads and milestones leading to Scythopolis.
Recently, a final report was published on the rescue excavation that took place in 2020 and continued into 2021. The excavation was conducted by D. Eisenberg-Degen on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and was part of the adopt-a-site Project.
A milestone with an inscription dating back to the time of the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus (161-169 AD) was recently discovered and scanned.
From summer 2022 till winter 2023 a study excavation was conducted on the Diocaesarea-Tiberias Roman road near the village of Rumat al-Heib.
A final report was published on the last month for documentation of a Roman milestone near Horbat Mishkena that was held in January and March 2017, in the wake of antiquities robbery and development work. The documentation was conducted by IAA employees.
A new article by Adam Pažout, Michael Eisenberg and Gregor Staab was published in the last issue of Israel Exploration Journal. The article presents an Inscription deciphered on an unpublished milestone found on the north-eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee in the 1990’s.
Exploring the Holy Land – 150 Years of the Palestine Exploration Fund – David Gurevich and Anat Kidron (2019), article by Chaim Ben David Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee