Arthur Segal

Arthur Segal was born in 1946 in Warsaw

Arthur Segal was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1946. He immigrated to Israel in 1965. He lives in the city of Nesher.

He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and earned his PhD there in 1975. His doctorate dealt with town planning along the Via Traiana Nova in the Roman period. He then did postdoctoral work at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, from 1975 to 1977.

From 1977 to 1982 he taught at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba. From 1983 to 2014 he was on the faculty of the University of Haifa, where he became a full professor and later professor emeritus. He studies town planning and architecture in the Greco-Roman world, especially the Roman East, and has worked on ancient theaters with Uriel Zohar.

His field work included digs by the southern wall of the Temple Mount, a survey and excavation of the Byzantine city of Shivta, and the excavation of a Hellenistic fortress at Kibbutz Sha'ar HaAmakim. In 2000 he started an international excavation at Hippos-Sussita above the Sea of Galilee. He has written books on Shivta, Roman theaters and temples in the Roman East.