Archaeology
News and features about archaeological finds linking stories from the Torah and Prophets, or other historical events to the State of Israel
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.
Archaeologists trace the mosaics to an upscale villa in the third or fourth centuries after Lod became the Roman city of Diospolis.
The new 10,000-square-foot museum is geared to inspire visitors to contemplate the Holocaust while connecting with contemporary anti-Semitism, racism, current world events and life in Canada.
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“The Jewish community is an integral part of Greek identity, a fact that has been too often denied for centuries,” Greece’s Chief Rabbi Gabriel Negrin said at the exhibition’s inauguration ceremony. “This history should be passed on to future generations in order to combat ignorance and prejudice.”
“The Montefiore Mainz Mahzor” (circa 1310-20) is a cultural, religious and research manuscript more than 700 years old.
