East Again

This is our last weekend in Israel! Yesterday I went to Beit Shearim and Sepphoris with a few other students. I had never been to Beit Shearim before, it was really neat! It was a city where many diaspora Jews were buried (because the Jews wanted to reside in Israel after death, even if not in life). Beit Shearim means house of gates, and most the tombs are sealed with large stone doors on hinges, which are carved to imitate gates. One of the coolest tombs was the tomb of the sarcophagi, where hundreds of sarcophagi were found. It was quite large, and fun to walk through and explore. We saw a lot at Zippori/Sepphoris which I didn't get to see last time I was there. Sepphoris was the Capitol of Galilee for quite some time after the Romans conquered Palestine. There are many many mosaics there, really fine ones too. Some of the most detailed mosaics from the Roman and Byzantine eras have been found there. There is also a water tunnel we walked through, it was quite narrow and low in...