The Golan Heights boasts one of the best-preserved Roman roads in the southern Levant. Running from the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee to the Syrian village of Nawa, the road has been known for decades. Recent archaeological work along its length, however, is providing new insights into the social and political climate of the area at the time of the road’s construction in the early 160s CE. Probably built in anticipation of the impending Parthian War (163–167 CE), the road was part of a network connecting the coastal cities of Tyre and Akko to inland Syria. Strikingly, however, […]
