Before proceeding to Mount Carmel in the city of Haifa, we made a pit stop at the ruins of an ancient city founded by Herod the Great in twenty-five BCE. Caesarea Maritima is an ancient city situated on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea on the edge of the Sharon Plain. Despite being flattened by the passage of time with scattered ruins today, this old city—formerly known as Strato's Tower—still abounds with historical remnants of a glorious past.