Israel found traces of ancient roads in Jerusalem

The Israeli Archeological Agency (IAA) on June 25 said that in Jerusalem, archaeologists found a vestige of an ancient road from the Roman Empire, which led from Jaffa city to the shrine.

The road, dating back to 1,800 years old, is found in the Beit Hanina area in northern Jerusalem, bordering Palestine, within the framework of an excavation of the IAA before installing a sewer pipe.

According to the director of the project, David Yeger, the newly discovered track is part of a road system from the coastal plain to Jerusalem and this is the first time the IAA found an intact piece of this road.

The road continued eastward to the city of Bir Nabala, where people paved a modern street just a few centimeters above the ancient route.

Mr. Yeger said the Romans invested a large amount of money and used the most advanced technology of the time to create their own road network. The construction and maintenance of roads was assigned to the military, but the people also participated as a compulsory form of public labor.

According to an IAA report, the original road is about 8 meters wide and is paved with flat stones that fit together, making travel easy. However, many sections have been seriously damaged after thousands of years and have been repaired many times.