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Archaeologists Discover Footprint of Roman Soldier
[Ha'aretz] Ofri Ilani - Archaeologists have discovered a footprint made by a hobnailed sandal, the kind used by the Roman legions during the time when Rome ruled the region, in a wall surrounding the Hellenistic-Roman city of Sussita, east of Lake Kinneret. Last year, archaeologists found an inscription written by two Sussita residents when they finished their Roman military service. Sussita, which lies on the Syrian-African rift, was destroyed in an earthquake in 749 and its residents never returned. Yet precisely because of the earthquake, the remnants of the city have been preserved particularly well since there was no subsequent settlement.