Even the route, we drove about an hour is so impressive that deserves the separate story. We turned from the Mediterranean Sea and drove to direction of Nazareth and we saw three completely various climatic zones differing one of other with completely different flora and transition was simply momentary. Just before crossroads, we see vegetation typical for coast climate and beyond it the vegetation of droughty climate and through some kilometers the pines appear and other plants that grow in Israel north.
Excavation in a place, where the prospering city once was, are conducted and I think, there is a very high probability that many else secrets will open in due course.
Zippori is located in the lower Galilee, halfway between Mediterranean Sea and the Sea of Galilee. It is situated on the hill about an hour walk fro Nazareth and was the administrative capital of the Galilee in the 1st century. By 63 BCE Zippori and all Galilee were under the severe rule of Rome. Zippori suffered from the destruction caused by the civil war between Herod the Great and his archrival Mattathias Antigonus (the last king of Hasmonean dynasty) and after Galilee came under the rule of Herod Antipas Zippori was rebuilt and fortified.
Today we speak: “Zippori is located near to Nazareth” but at that old times there was all quite the contrary. Nazareth was a small and insignificant settlement to compare with Zippori.
Interest on the part of Biblical archeologists is related to the belief in Christian tradition that the parents of the Virgin Mary, Anna and Joachim, were natives of Zippory
So, today here are my first impressions and some photos of “Ornament all Galilee”.
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