# Hippos Sussita Baptisms and Israel's Stonehenge

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Podcast: [The Book and The Spade Feed](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-book-and-the-spade-feed-7064940)
Published: 2026-07-17T20:26:51+00:00
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## Resource

The ongoing excavations of the seven churches in the decapolis city of Hippos/Sussita has revealed that in the largest church, no doubt the seat of the bishop, there were two separate baptismal areas. At one of them they found a block of marble with three cup-shaped depressions that appear to have been for holding anointing oils. Also included in this discussion, the latest discoveries related to Rujm el-Hiri, ancient stone circles in the Golan.

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