Did Alexander the Great meet a Jewish priest, and was this meeting enshrined in a mosaic floor?  It’s probably just a legend, but the mosaic is also the first non-biblical one ever to be found in an ancient synagogue, at a site called Huqoq. Since 2011, Jodi Magness, an archaeologist at UNC Chapel Hill, has been leading excavations at Huqoq, near Galilee in Israel.  And for the last three summers, she has uncovered fantastic mosaics unlike anything that has been seen before. MORE