Paving Stones and Street
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5/18/16
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Caesarea National Park , Israel , Herod the Great , Hellenism , Roman Empire , Judea , Caesarea Maritima , Straton's Tower , Street , Cardo , Decumanus::Strata
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Caesarea's streets ran in a regular, square, north-south/east-west grid called a centuriation. A cardo ran north-south. An east-west road was called a decumanus. The principal cardo maximus and principal decumanus maximus intersected at the heart of the city.