{"id":449,"date":"2018-05-07T03:25:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T01:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/new\/israel\/israelwp\/dead-sea-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"modified":"2020-04-29T14:30:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T12:30:40","slug":"bet-shean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/bet-shean\/","title":{"rendered":"Bet She&#8217;an"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"mtwpb_elements_wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]South of the Sea of Galilee are the remains of one of the largest cities in the Roman-Byzantine Empire, Bet She\u2019an. One of ten ancient cities (hence \u201cDecapolis\u201d) that included Philadelphia (present day Amman in Jordan) and Jerash, Scythopolis ((Bet She\u2019an) was the only decapolis city west of the Jordan river.\u00a0 It was very grand, with a giant theater, streets of tall columns, shops, bathhouses a hippodrome and hundreds of homes.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=\"2431\" img_size=\"full\" add_caption=\"yes\" alignment=\"center\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]However, the splendid city was toppled in 749 by a massive earthquake, and never rebuilt. Over the centuries the ruins were overgrown \u2013 and it was not until the mid-20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century that Israeli archeologists pulled Bet She\u2019an out of the murk, discovering (and restoring) the theater, the Cardo, the columns and much more.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]South of the Sea of Galilee are the remains of one of the largest cities in the Roman-Byzantine Empire, Bet She\u2019an. One of ten ancient cities (hence \u201cDecapolis\u201d) that included Philadelphia (present day Amman in Jordan) and Jerash, Scythopolis ((Bet She\u2019an) was the only decapolis city west of the Jordan river.\u00a0 It was very grand, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-places-to-go","category-north"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}