Archaeology
News and features about archaeological finds linking stories from the Torah and Prophets, or other historical events to the State of Israel
The quarry, unearthed in the city’s present-day Har Hotzvim industrial park, is one of the largest ever found in Jerusalem, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority.
The dig at the famous site, destroyed by the Nazis, has taken on new importance this year in the aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, said Israel Antiquities Authority Director Eli Escusido.
Archeologists believe they were “intended to protect the city from the north—the only weak point of the City of David slope.”
Pennsylvania State Rep. Mark Gillen faces threats and harassment while pursuing his educational project.
The color “scarlet worm” is mentioned 25 times in the Bible.
The ring depicts the Roman war goddess Minerva, known to the Greeks as Athena, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority.
A unique art exhibition opens in a former Ottoman jail inside Jaffa Gate.
Majority of countries have made no progress on Holocaust art restitution over the last quarter century.
The 3,300-year-old wreck, found a mile deep in the Eastern Mediterranean, contained hundreds of intact amphorae.
The little-known Gallus Revolt in 351-354 C.E. saw Lod, Tzipori and Tiberias destroyed.
Second Temple period phylacteries found near Qumran underwent a battery of scientific tests.
“These walls continue to talk to us and reveal Jerusalem’s history,” said archeologist Amit Re’em.
