Dear Friends of Magdala: By the time you receive this newsletter we will have celebrated the first anniversary of the inauguration of the Archaeological Park Of Magdala and the consecration of Duc In Altum. That is to say, it has been a full year since we completed the first phase of development and opened Magdala…
May 28, 2015 What brings people to Magdala? The fame of Mary Magdalene? The best preserved first century synagogue in Israel? The oldest sculpted menorah found in a synagogue? The natural spring purification baths? The newest worship center on the shores of Galilee? Many people visit because they have heard Magdala is a ‘must see’…
If stones could talk, we would fire many questions at the unique Magdala Stone uncovered in 2009 in the recently discovered First Century Synagogue. Since they cannot talk, we have left it up to the scholars to speculate. Before the Temple of Jerusalem was destroyed, in 70 AD, the Jewish city of Magdala possessed a…
