Archaeology
News and features about archaeological finds linking stories from the Torah and Prophets, or other historical events to the State of Israel
“There has never been a dispute that the Cassirer family was the rightful owner,” insist lawyers for the family, whose matriarch surrendered the painting to escape Nazi Germany.
“The depiction of camels on the vessel highlights the importance of the animal, which was a central means of land transportation around 1,200 years ago.”
The Israel Antiquities Authority is pushing back against the country’s chief rabbis’ objections to the display at the airport of a 2000-year old, 5-ton stone from Judaism’s holiest site.
“The discoveries are exciting and even emotional,” says Israel Antiquities Authority director Eli Escusido.
The fast-growing city in central Israel has just opened its first hotel in a bid to attract business and leisure tourism.
Clay Barr began her collection of Torah “hands,” which spans two and a half centuries, to memorialize her husband 30 years ago.
Excavation of a 2,500-year-old burial site revealed tombs of trade caravans from Yemen, Phoenicia and Egypt that traveled through the Land of Israel.
The UAE, Indonesia and Albania are all home to initiatives documenting the Nazi genocide.
The museum and shul will be open for tours and prayer from Jan. 24-26.
The site, near the Temple Mount, is the only known ritual structure from the period found in Jerusalem.
New research offers an explanation for why the practice prevalent in prehistoric Western Europe didn’t occur in the Eastern Mediterranean.
“Blessed are you when you come in and blessed are you when you go out” (Deuteronomy 28:6), is inscribed in ancient Greek on the mosaic floor.
