If you want to walk down a Roman street that looks exactly as it did 2,000 years ago - complete with shopfronts, mosaic sidewalks, and fallen columns - you don’t go to Italy. You go to the Jordan Valley. Beit Shean National Park (ancient Scythopolis) is one of the largest and most breathtaking archaeological sites in the world. While other ruins require a lot of imagination, Beit Shean is visceral. Because the city was leveled by a massive earthquake in 749 CE, much of the Ro