Archelais
Archelaïs was a town in the Roman province of Judaea/Palaestina, corresponding to modern Khirbet el-Beiyudat. It was founded by Herod the Great's son Archelaus to house workers for his date plantation in the Jericho area. It is represented on the Madaba mosaic map with a towered entrance flanked by two other towers.
Geography
Archelaïs was located about 7.5 miles north of Jericho, on the road leading to Scythopolis.History
Archelais was founded by Archelaus |Archelaus], son of Herod the Great and ethnarch of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea. Salome bequeathed it to Livia in her will.Agrippa I, king of Judaea in the early 40s CE, established a road station at Archelais.
In Christian times, the town became a bishopric. The names of two of its bishops: Timotheus, who took part in two anti-Eutyches synods held in Constantinople in 448 and 449, and Antiochus, who was at the Council of Chalcedon in 451.
No longer a residential bishopric, Archelaïs is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.
Inscriptions on the floor of a church discovered among the ruins of the town indicate that it was paved with Early [Byzantine mosaics in the Middle East| Byzantine mosaics] during the 560s.