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.
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.
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.
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Two uninscribed milestones were found along the modern road east of the Jordan on the Golan Heights. The first milestone (IMC 697) was discovered by Boaz Gross, a Phd Archaeology student from Tel Aviv University. The second one (IMC 698) was discovered by Oren Zingenboym from the Israeli Antiquities Authority.
In an archaeological excavation that was carried out prior to the installation of a water pipeline at the initiative of the Mei Shemesh Company
Lerer Y. 2016. ‘Nahariyya’ Hadashot Arkheologiyot Excavations and Surveys in Israel 128 http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/Report_Detail_Eng.aspx?id=24992&mag_id=124
Shave Ziyyon – the longest segment of the imperial road running from Antioch to ‘Akko-Ptolemais that has been excavated to date Lerer Y. 2015. ‘Shave Zion’, Hadashot Arkheologiyot Excavations and Surveys in Israel 127 http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_detail_eng.aspx?id=22789&mag_id=122
3 milestones bearing inscriptions were discovered in the excavation of Eshkol reservoir by Yotam Tepper. Read more