Khayfa al-Atika (Ancient Haifa)
Scholars theorize that a city by the name of Haifa, located on land stretching from today's Rambam Health Care Campus to the Jewish cemetery on Jaffa Street, was founded in the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE beside the bigger and wealthier Shikmona. Its ancient shoreline followed a cove providing calm anchorage. Around this cove, a settlement developed whose residents engaged in fishing, coastal trading and farming. Of this city, only a complex of tombs excavated in the kurkar rock and in use from the 2nd until the 6th or 7th centuries remains. A portion of this burial complex has been preserved at the edge of the park on al-Atika Street.
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