Inside BAR

Each year thousands of tourists visit the sprawling site of Caesarea on its beautiful strip of Mediterranean shore. Everyone observes the Crusader fortifications and the Byzantine streets and statues at Caesarea, but few can picture in detail the earliest city and harbor built by Herod the Great and described so vividly by Josephus Flavius. In this issue two articles focus on Herod’s Caesarea Maritima. The first article, “Caesarea Maritima—The Search for Herod’s City,” by Robert J. Bull, outlines the archaeological clues which have revealed the elaborate Herodian city plan with its network of streets, its vast storage vaults, its […]