The El Araj Excavations Project is an ongoing investigation of Roman-period Bethsaida-Julias on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. It enters its eighth season of excavation of Roman, Byzantine, and Crusader material remains. In recent years, the project has received considerable attention for its discovery of a lost, legendary basilica reportedly built over the house of the Apostles Peter and Andrew in Bethsaida.
In the coming seasons, it will focus more effort to opening squares of the Roman-period settlement that likely represents Herod Phillip’s urbanization of the fishing village of Bethsaida into a small Roman polis that he named Julias.
Sea of Galilee, Northern Israel
September 13 – September 27, 2024
2 Weeks
Saturday, June 1, 2024
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Volunteers will be housed in Beit Haccerem, Migdal, Israel.
Mordechai Aviam: Kinneret Academic College
Steven Notley: Kinneret Academic College and Yeshiva University