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Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Palace Mosaics on the Sea of Galilee Shore

New insights into the area where the caliph’s palace of Khirbat al-Minya was built on the shores of the Sea of Galilee have been revealed with the help of geomagnetic surface surveys and subsequent hands-on digging, an excavation team from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). According to these findings, Christian or Jewish inhabitants had already ...

Troy Oakes

A mosaic from Khirbat al-Minya.