Excavations near Rehovot have revealed a pottery factory that manufactured large storage jars in the Roman and Byzantine periods – from the 3rd to the 7th centuries CE. The factory contained a room with game boards hewn out of the bedrock, and a complex of 20 hot and cold pools.

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