After the Holy City was razed in 135 CE, an edict seemed designed to prevent a Jewish return. The discovery of an artifact ...

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

The Civil Administration said the artifacts add to a growing corpus of Second Temple–era material recovered in recent years ...

During the Byzantine era, Jews were formally forbidden from entering Jerusalem. The presence of such an object suggests that Jews nevertheless continued to visit under unofficial circumstances ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem recently discovered a massive Hanukkah-era wall from an ancient power struggle between Hasmonean ...

In a shocking archaeological discovery, an ancient gold ring has been unearthed at the City of David — the ancient heart of Jerusalem. The small gold ring, adorned with a red gemstone, is believed to ...

A lamp dating back about two thousand years was discovered Sunday, on the eve of the holiday of Hanukkah, during archaeological rescue excavations at Tell Qasile, located in the heart of the Eretz ...

On a seemingly ordinary family walk in Israel, 3-year-old Ziv Nitzan made an extraordinary discovery—a scarab amulet dating back to the Middle Bronze Age. The find, made in close proximity to the Tel ...

Israel's Civil Administration returns dozens of archaeological finds from Burj Lasanan site in a targeted operation ...

SHOHAM, Israel — Archaeologists believe they have found one of the oldest burial sites in the world at a cave in Israel, where the well-preserved remains of early humans dating back some 100,000 years ...

Coverage of the discovery of an ancient mosque in Rahat has neglected to mention the planned mass relocation of thousands of people to the Bedouin town. Aerial photograph of the Early Islamic mosque ...