Archelais
Ancient city · Palestinian National Authority
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 31.966, 35.472
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Археологический памятник в Палестине
History
Archelaïs was a town in the Roman province of Judaea/Palaestina, corresponding to modern Khirbet el-Beiyudat. It was founded by Herod the Great's son Archelaus to house workers for his date plantation in the Jericho area. It is represented on the Madaba mosaic map with a towered entrance flanked by two other towers.