Shefa-'Amr

Shefa-ʻAmr, additionally Shfar'am is an Arab city in the Northern District of Israel. In 2017 it had a populace of 41,024, with a Sunni Muslim majority alongside huge Christian and Druze minorities. Walls, installations and pottery sherds from the Early Bronze Age IB and the Middle Bronze Age IIB Iron, Hellenistic and Roman intervals have been excavated at Shefa-'Amr. Settlement has existed there without interruption because the Roman period, while it become one of the cities referred to within the Talmud as containing the seat of the Jewish Sanhedrin.

Decorated burial caves had been documented by the Survey of Western Palestine inside the past due nineteenth century. They found the caves to be Christian tombs from the Byzantine technology, courting to the fifth and sixth century CE. Greek inscriptions have been also found. Archeological excavations of a cave and quarries revealed that they had been used in the Roman and Byzantine eras. Shefa-'Amr incorporates Byzantine remains, which includes of a church and tombs.