Shivta

Shivta in Roman and Byzantine Times

Shivta is located some 40 km. southwest of Beer Sheva. Some of the buildings now standing date from the Roman period, but most were built in Byzantine times, when the inhabitants engaged in intensive agriculture. In the 4th century two churches were built here (the northern and the southern); later, in the 5th-6th century, when the city expanded, t...

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Shivta in Wikipedia

Shivta or Sobota or Subeitah or Subaytah (Hebrew: שבטה‎), is an archaeological site in the Negev Desert of Israel, east of Nitzana. It is now the Israeli Artillery Corps main training facility. Long considered a classic Nabataean town and terminal on the ancient spice route, archaeologists are now considering the possibility that the town was ...

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