'Highway of ancient world': Part of an 1,800-year-old Roman road found in Galilee

Times of Israel ^ | 3 December 2022 | Staff

[SunkenCiv]

Archeologists have uncovered part of an 1,800-year-old Roman road in northern Israel, built in the time of emperor Hadrian, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced.

In a statement, the IAA said the road section, measuring some 8 meters (26 feet) wide and 25 meters (82 feet) long, was found near the village of Rumat al-Heib, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) west of the city of Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee. It was discovered during development work on a walking trail.

The IAA branded the road as “the Highway 6 of the ancient world,” referencing Israel’s major north-to-south highway.

It said the road, which runs between Acre, Sepphoris and Tiberias, was paved in the 2nd century AD during Hadrian’s rule. The road was completed by his successors and later renovated in the Byzantine period.

The Roman empire established several major roads in the area as part of a need to quickly move military forces, mail and goods, the IAA said in its statement Thursday.

[SunkenCiv]

View of a new section of an 1,800-year-old Roman road in northern Israel, published December 1, 2022.

Alex Wigman, Israel Antiquities Authority

[SunkenCiv]

[coalminersson]

Thanx. The variety of subjects here is one of the reasons I signed on. If you have ping list please add me

[BobL]

“The excavation works are part of the development works of the Sanhedrin Trail, a 70-kilometer (43-mile) walking path that passes between sites associated with the assembly of 71 sages of the ancient supreme court of Israel.”

Get some SERIOUS exercise walking that path.

[Deplorable American1776]

I bet it is better than some New Jersey’s roads.. 🤓

[Larry Lucido]

A section of this road adopted by a certain Kramericus was known for its wide, luxurious lanes, and constant traffic jams.

[telescope115]

I was wondering if it looks like the one on Oak Island. Clearly it doesn’t.

[oldplayer]

Thanks, SunkenCiv. Rome’s great buildings, aqueducts, and government are all admired today. Yet, these roads that stitched the empire together may have been more important.

[logi_cal869]

Archeologists have uncovered part of an 1,800-year-old Roman road in northern Israel, built in the time of emperor Hadrian,

Irony.

[SunkenCiv]

From the aqueduct/s keywords, sorted:

• Patara (Turkey) [the Patara pipes] [09/12/2021]
• Rome's Tremendous Tunnel [04/19/2009]
• Rome's Tremendous Tunnel [100 kilometers long, century to dig it] [03/13/2009]
• Water To Run Down From Antonine Nymphaeum After 1300 Years [07/28/2008]

  ---

• Roman Tomb Unearthed; to Everyone's Surprise, It's Intact [4th c BC] [06/11/2018]
• Roman Aqueducts and Water Mills [02/20/2015]
• Water's role in the rise and fall of the Roman Empire [12/13/2014]
• Roman ship had on-board fish tank: Hand-operated pump would have kept catch alive during long trips [06/02/2011]
• Rome's Ancient Aqueduct Found [09/17/2010]
• Two thousand year old Roman aqueduct discovered [01/25/2010]
• Claudius' Naumachia on Fucine Lake (Those About To Die, chap III) [11/24/2005]
• Research team recreates ancient underwater concrete technology [04/09/2005]
• The Lake's Progress (Greeks, Roman, Persians And Arabs) [12/10/2004]

[SunkenCiv]

Looks like a lot of steep here and there. :^)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF6sAk6tqmo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbW9jHm_nwA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boCvDmEG8MY

https://www.gov.il/en/search?OfficeId=6cbf57de-3976-484a-8666-995ca17899ec&query=sanhedrin

[SunkenCiv]

Plus that movie. :^) The aqueducts diverted water into populated areas and into irrigation systems. The outposts in arid areas relied on roads to ship water to the garrisons, and the military built the roads, maintained the frontiers, and policed the cities.

• Qasr Bashir – A Roman fortlet in Jordan [04/19/2020]

[SunkenCiv]

map of the Sanhedrin Trail:

https://www.israel21c.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sanhedrin-map.jpg

https://www.israel21c.org/sanhedrin-trail-to-be-israels-1st-interactive-hiking-path/

[SunkenCiv]

As you said, the roads were more important overall.

[panzerkamphwageneinz]

Pretty evident by air...so what is this ‘new’ in this discovery...

[SunkenCiv]

You’ll need to take that claim of yours up with the archaeologists.

[Conservat1]

All the while, fakestinians fool the world on a made up history about their grandparents immigrants into Israel ...

[Red Badger]

Just as good as it ever was!.......................