Two stunning Roman-era tombs in the ancient coastal city of Ashkelon in southern Israel have undergone painstaking restoration in advance of opening to the public for the first time. The tombs have been incorporated into a single archaeological park just 300 yards from the beach. Though close in physical proximity, the tombs were discovered more than half a century apart, with one being opened in the 1930s and the other in the 1990s. The older of the two tombs dates to the second century CE, while the later one was in use in the early fourth century. Open to the […]
