Israel, Usha (ancient city)

Regarding the town in which the Sanhedrin set roots sometime after 135 CE, Yair Amitzur, one of the two dig directors, stated in 2019 that between the second and about the sixth century, Usha was inhabited by Jews. At the latter point, during the Byzantine period, the Jews abandoned the site which was then settled by Christians, with unearthed artifacts attesting to this change in populations. According to Amitzur, Usha started being mentioned in Jewish sources in the first century CE