‘Atiqot is an open access, non-profit thematic journal dedicated to specific topics related to the archaeology of Israel. It is published by the Israel Antiquities Authority three times a year, online only. All content published in the journal is subject to double anonymous peer review and language editing.
Current Volume: Volume 120 (2026) Ancient Streets, Pathways and Roads
Roads are deeply embedded in the story of human civilization. More than a physical route, roads, streets and alleys have served as a powerful vector linking rural labor, communal responsibility, aspirations for spatial control, and the human yearning for the sublime. Along these paths cultures met, interacted and transformed, giving rise to new forms of social and cultural expression. The articles assembled in this volume explore diverse roads from multiple periods and perspectives.
This volume is dedicated to the memory of our colleague, Dr. Chai Ashkenazi, a distinguished field archaeologist and scholar of landscapes, whose life and scholarly contributions were cut short prematurely.
Walking through the Alleys of Motza (Moẓa): Early Evidence of Settlement Planning and Urban Organization
Dmitry Yegorov, Anna Eirikh-Rose, and Hamoudi Khalaily
Understanding Alleyways of the Early Bronze Age Southern Levant: A View from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel
Haskel J. Greenfield, Jeremy A. Beller, Sarah J. Richardson, Shira Albaz, Tina L. Greenfield, and Aren M. Maeir
Eyes to the East: Round Watchtowers Overlooking the Roads Leading from the Jordan Valley to the Kingdom of Israel in Iron Age II
Ron Be’eri, Avishay Oz, Аlexander Wiegmann, Yael Widerker Hilu, and Tzachi Lang
Roads to the Holy City: An Integrated Archaeological and Spatial Analysis of Access Routes Leading to Jerusalemin the Second Century BCE–Seventh Century CE
Yosef Spiezer, Boaz Zissu, and Yehiel Zelinger
The Stepped Podium : A Landmark on Jerusalem’s Main Thoroughfare in the Second Temple Period
Nahshon Szanton
Menorah Graffiti on the Streets of Jerusalem
Shlomit Weksler Bdolah and Nahshon Szanton
A Network (capita viarum) of Roads, Bridges and
City Gates Connecting to the Colonnaded Streets of Roman-Period Nysa-Scythopolis: Evidence of Efficient Traffic Planning
Walid Atrash and Gabriel Mazor
Aspects of Urban Planning in Bet She’an-Scythopolis:
A View from Rhometalkes’ Alleys
Benjamin Y. Arubas and Leah Di Segni
Excavations at Jerusalem: The Byzantine Street (Area S2)
Moran Hagbi and Joe Uziel
Glass Finds of the Late Byzantine–Umayyad Periods from the Byzantine-Period Street (Area S2), Jerusalem
Tamar Winter
Coins from the Excavations of the Byzantine Street
(Area S2), City of David, Jerusalem
Donald T. Ariel
Dendroarchaeological Analysis of Charcoal Fragments from the Byzantine Street in the City of David, Jerusalem
Mordechay Benzaquen and Dafna Langgut
Persian to British Mandate-Period Settlement at Qedumim Square, Yafo (Jaffa): An Umayyad Fortress and Ottoman Street
Avraham S. Tendler
Iron Age to Ottoman-Period Pottery from the Excavation at Qedumim Square, Tel Yafo (Jaffa)
Itamar Taxel
Coffee, Tobacco and Commerce: A Late Ottoman–Early British Mandate Roadside Coffeehouse at Horses’ Beach, ‘Akko (Acre)
Edna J. Stern, Eliezer Stern, Hanaa Aboud, Anastasia Shapiro, and Yael Gorin-Rosen
Volume Editors
- Yardenna Alexandre
- Rachel Kudish-Vashdi
- Ezra Marcus
- Asaf Nativ
- Inbal Samet
- Joe Uziel
Cover Page
- Reconstruction of the Roman Imperial roads near the legionary base at Legio, Roman period (illustration: T. Meltsen)
- Cover Design: Ira Bendersky