Archaeology
News and features about archaeological finds linking stories from the Torah and Prophets, or other historical events to the State of Israel
Alabaster was quarried locally, not in Egypt as always assumed, according to Bar-Ilan University researchers.
A cornerstone of the museum will be the inclusion of the “Dimensions in Testimony” program.
Israel Antiquities Authority says unearthed wine jugs help reveal what people ate and drank prior to Jerusalem’s destruction by Babylonia in 586 BCE.
Study finds that humans from 500,000 years ago in what is now southern Israel reshaped and reused stone tools rather than make new ones.
Workers took down “Flowers,” painted by German artist Lovis Corinth in 1913, and packed it for the family of Gustav and Emma Mayer.
The vertebra from Ubeidiya belonged to a young individual 6-12 years old, who was tall for his age, the researchers found.
The metal pendants, each different from the others, are from Lviv in Ukraine, Poland and the Czech Republic, according to researchers.
Following reports of vandalism at dozens of heritage and archaeological sites in Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley, Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Minister Elkin calls conservation of sites a “national mission.”
Jerusalem’s elites had the rare luxury of toilets 2,700 years ago, but poor hygiene and sanitary conditions led to chronic stomach troubles.
Among the artifacts brought up are a hoard of gold and silver coins, and artifacts bearing Greek, biblical and Christian symbols.
The marble artifact from Roman times, which weighs some two tons, is believed to have been stolen from a construction site and discarded on an illegal trash heap.
New Sanhedrin Trail exhibition at the Yigal Allon Center on Kibbutz Ginosar includes 150 rare ancient artifacts from the Israel Antiquities Authority.
