Forum (Agora 1)

View looking south over the recent excavations of the ancient Forum/Agora. Note the remnants of the colonnade, which surrounded the forum. This version of the forum seems to date to the second century A.D. although its foundations may be earlier.

On the left (east) side of the image is where the Odeum was located.

This may have been the area of the "marketplace" where a mob started to riot in the city (Acts 17: 5) due to the success of the preaching of Paul and Silas.

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