Israeli authorities are encroaching on the ancient site of Sebastia in the West Bank to create a tourist attraction aimed at settlers, raising worries of the displacement of Palestinians.

Archaeologists finished excavating foundations of the ancient wall that surrounded Jerusalem when the story of Hanukkah took ...

As the State of Israel recovers from two years of war, a biblical book about some restorative heroes of old (sorry, Maccabees ...

Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed the largest ancient Roman basilica in the nation, a 2,000-year-old building dating to the reign of the Biblical figure Herod the Great, who may have built it.

An international team of archaeologists has uncovered an ancient Biblical era temple in Israel. The ruins of the Canaanite temple were discovered within a large Bronze Age settlement in what is now ...

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered the remains of an ancient settlement in the Negev desert, uncovering ancient tunnels used by Jewish rebels against the Romans. The underground passageways were ...

The Maccabean Revolt was one of the most striking conflicts between Israelites and ancient Greeks, commemorated today through ...

New DNA analysis has revealed that Israel was completely transformed 6,500 years ago, when two different groups of immigrants moved to the region, carrying with them the special mutation that is able ...

The researchers hope to resurrect a variety of date praised in antiquity. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Methuselah, Adam, Jonah, Uriel, Boaz, Judith and Hannah -- all sat ...

Hen Zakai loves exploring darkness. In his spare time, he lowers himself into the underground world of hidden caves to navigate the nooks and crevasses of a very different environment. Zakai was ...