On a recent visit to Caesarea Maritima I had a chance to visit the recently opened museum.
This photo is of the exterior of the new museum at Caesarea Maritima
The museum is built into four of the fourteen vaults that Herod the Great built to support the platform of the temple of Augustus and Roma. To the left (north) of the museum, reconstruction work continues—note the reconstructed staircase that leads up to where the Temple stood.
This is what the area looked like back in the 1970s. And also Here 2000s.
Inside of the second vault is a theater where a short, 12-minute, movie on the life of Herod the Great and the construction of Caesarea Maritima is shown.
This photo is of the interior of the theater of the new museum at Caesarea Maritima.
The other three vaults contain artifacts, or replicas of artifacts from the excavations at Caesarea Maritima.
One of the displays, in the first vault, is composed of sequencing images of the layout of Caesarea Maritima at various stages in its history.
This image is of one of the rotating displays of the city of Caesarea Maritima at various periods. This image seems to depict the city in the early Byzantine Period.
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So beautiful!!!!