Arthur Segal

Dr. Arthur Segal, director of the Hippos-Sussita excavation since 1999, heads the Zinman Institute of Archaeology and is a professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Haifa. He has excavated at many sites, including Megiddo, along the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount, Shivta and Kibbutz Sha’ar ha-Amakim, where he spent 14 seasons excavating the Hellenistic fortress.

He is the author of From Function to Monument: Urban Landscapes of Roman Palestine, Syria and Provincia Arabia (Oxbow Books, 1997) and The History and Architecture of the Theatres in Roman Palestine (Bialik Institute, 1999).