Background
He was born in Poland (1946) and immigrated to Israel in 1965.
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Arthur Segal
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He completed his university studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Doctor of Philosophy 1975) and his post doctorate at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London (1975-1977).
Career
Between 1977 and 1982 he lectured at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheba and between 1983-2014 he was faculty member at the University of Haifa. In 2000 he initiated and headed an international excavation project at Hippos-Sussita of the Decapolis, a Roman-Byzantine city located above the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee (the Kinneret Lake). During the first twelve seasons (2000-2011) substantial parts of the centre of this city have been exposed.
Segal regards himself as an architectural historian.
His main fields of research are the town planning and architecture in the Graeco-Roman world in general and in the Roman East in particular.
