ARCHAEOLOGY AT JERICHO PALACE

(Above) Excavated ruins of Herod's Second Palace at Jericho

(Below) A reconstruction of the Second Palace, drawn from the same angle as the photograph - you can match up the different areas of the palace

Reconstruction of the Palace at Jericho, built by King Herod

Excavated brickwork in the bath house of the Winter Palace at Jericho

A close-up of the bathhouse at center right in the top photograph

The third photograph shows the laconicum or 'sweating hall' in the thermal baths of the Northern Palace.

Notice the extensive use of opus reticulatum, the intricate style of brickwork fashionable in the Roman world at the time the palace was built.

For more on this, go to A POOL AT JERICHO.

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