🏛️ Scythopolis-Neapolis
Remains of a major Roman city in the Jordan Valley
📌 Fast Facts
- Located in Bet She'an, Israel, in the northern Jordan Valley
- One of the Decapolis — a network of ten Hellenistic-Roman cities
- Flourished from the 1st to 8th centuries CE; largely destroyed by earthquake in 749 CE
- Now a major archaeological site operated as a national park
Scythopolis, later called Neapolis, was the largest city west of the Jordan River during the Roman and Byzantine ...