Archaeology
News and features about archaeological finds linking stories from the Torah and Prophets, or other historical events to the State of Israel
The British Council was one of the museum’s early supporters and was still sponsoring initiatives at the museum as late as 2021.
The species was much larger than African elephants; humans hunted them for food or symbolic purposes.
At the City of David National Park, excavations from the ancient past come to life in a series of astounding discoveries.
In an extraordinary chance discovery, archeologists have uncovered a 2.5-meter-long prehistoric elephant tusk in the south of Israel.
Skeletons found at the bottom of a well in Norwich likely belonged to the victims of a historically documented 12th-century massacre of Jews in the city.
Dating to the Early Islamic period (eighth to ninth centuries C.E.), the building was constructed around a central courtyard and comprised four wings with rooms to serve the needs of the residents.
“I remain committed to uncovering the evidence that the Nazis tried to hide at the camps and to trying to uncover the stories of the people they tried to erase,” said British professor Caroline Sturdy Colls.
Nearly 2,000 years old, coin was minted during the rule of Emperor Antoninus Pius and depicts a Roman moon goddess and the Cancer zodiac sign.
The baths, uncovered during a Hebrew University excavation, are located in an area that housed ancient Jerusalem’s elites, according to researchers.
Roman archeologists working day and night at the fourth-century church in Jerusalem discovered the rock layers underlying Constantine’s project.
One piece restituted was Johann Jakob Schillinger’s “Devil’s Bridge” from Berlin’s Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings).
The Shelby White and Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Archaeological Center will open to the public later this summer.
