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Banias: Artifacts from Roman Palace of Agrippas built nearby – piece in foreground is decorated altar with basin on top.

Banias: Located at the foot of Mt. Hermon in the Golan Heights. It has the ruins of Roman temples. The word Banias is a corruption of the word Panias (Arabic has no p sound), the name of the area dedicated to the Greek god Pan (4th century b.c.e.). Pan supposedly was half goat-half human – a god of nature, herdsmen, music, homosexuals and nymphs. Then the area became Roman - part of King Herod’s domain. In the New Testament – Banias is the place where Jesus designated Peter as the, “Rock.” Banias was conquered by Muslims in the 7th century and then by Crusaders in the 12th century.


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