Imagine walking down a bustling city street where modern art galleries and boutique shops sit nestled between massive stone columns that have stood for over a millennium. This is the Roman Cardo, the heart of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is one of the few places in the world where you can literally walk through the layers of history, from the Roman Empire to the modern State of Israel. What was the Cardo? In Roman urban planning, the Cardo Maximus was t