Tzipori National Park. Amazing ancient mosaic

Описание: Tzipori National Park. Amazing ancient mosaic
This video was filmed in July 2021

Tzippori National Park is the ruins of the ancient city of Sepphoris, including numerous beautiful mosaics and an ancient water supply system.
Tzippori National Park is an ancient walled city located near Nazareth in Galilee. Numerous architectural and historical monuments of Tzippori belong to the Assyrian, Hellenic, Jewish, Babylonian, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, Crusader, Arab and Ottoman periods in the history of Galilee and Israel.
For the first time, ancient Tzipori was mentioned in the description of Joseph Flavius ​​of the state of the Hasmonean king Alexander Yanai.
In 63 BC Israel was conquered by the Romans and in 55 BC. proclaimed Tzippori the capital of the Galilee.
The city flourished during the reign of Herod the Great. After the death of Herod in 1 BC. A rebellion broke out in Tzippori, which was brutally suppressed by the soldiers of the Roman governor Varus.
Tzipori was recreated and rebuilt. The well-known Rabbi Yehuda ha-Nasi moved to Tzipori from Beit Shean, and the Sanhedrin (a collection of 71 elders, which was the legislative body and at the same time the supreme court) moved there with him. The last point in the Mishnah was put by Rabbi Yehuda ha-Nasi in Zippori in 220. The sages living in Zippori at that time also took part in writing the Jerusalem Talmud, which was completed in the fourth century.
Christians appeared in Sipporis (the Greek name of Tzipori) in the 4th century, this confirms the order of Emperor Constantine to Joseph of Tiberian to build a church in Tzipori. Zippori was completely destroyed by an earthquake in 363.
From the 5th century, Tzippori was inhabited by both Christians and Jews. The crusaders believed that the parents of the Virgin, Sts. Jokim and Anna lived in Tzipori and built the church of St. Anna
The crusaders also erected a fortress in Tzippori to protect the pilgrims who went to the holy places from Acre (Akko) to Nazareth.
On July 3, 1187, the crusader army marched from the spring on the south side of Sepphoris to liberate Tiberia, besieged by Saladin, but the next day was defeated on the Horns of Hattin. The city captured that summer by Saladin was returned to the crusaders under the treaty of 1240 and was held by the Templars until the arrival of the Mamluks in 1263.
After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1975, an expedition from Tel Aviv University excavated the city's water supply systems; excavations were resumed in 1985 under the direction of Professor Ehud Netzer and Zeev Weiss of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Eric and Carol Meyers of Duke University (North Carolina).
Excavations at Tzipori continue to this day.
In 1992, Tzipori and its surroundings with a total area of ​​16 km were given the status of a national park.
A residential area and a network of well-preserved streets, a Roman villa, a Roman theatre, the House of the Nile, a synagogue, as well as an ancient water supply system are objects currently available for a visit.
Particularly attractive is a very skillfully made masterpiece mosaic. These are literally whole mosaic canvases lying under your feet!