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Alexander to Constantine: Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume 3 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Drawing on groundbreaking archaeological research, Eric M. Meyers and Mark A. Chancey re-narrate the history of ancient Palestine in this richly illustrated and expertly integrated book. Spanning from the conquest of Alexander the Great in the fourth century BC until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine in the fourth century AD, they synthesize archaeological evidence with ancient literary...

He also made caves of many furlongs in length … and then he made large rooms in it, some for feasting, and some for sleeping and living in. But still he made the entrances at the mouth of the cave so narrow that no more than one person could enter by them at once.… Moreover, he built courts of greater magnitude than ordinary, which he adorned with vastly large gardens” (Ant. 12.230–33).
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