Tag: antiquities

It's been a busy week for law enforcement.

The underwater remains also include rare personal effects of the shipwreck victims.

The four were arrested on suspicion of trading in antiquities and holding property suspected as stolen.

Among the remains are mikvahs, ritual baths, which were hewn in the days of the Second Temple and were used until the Byzantine period, burial caves, an oil press, underground systems, and impressive structures from the Ottoman period.

The robber was using a metal detector and a shovel.

“Antiquities robbers and the unlicensed antiquities dealers will very quickly come to understand that they have no one to sell the stolen antiquities to.”

An Arab driver from Beit Hanina tried to use a Norwegian diplomatic vehicle to smuggle Israeli antiquities to Jordan.

An extremely rare sarcophagus has been uncovered at a building site in Ashkelon.

"I stole them in July 1995 and since then they have brought me nothing but trouble. Please, do not steal antiquities!”

The Jews who were ready to buy Second Temple history are no less guilty than the Arabs who stole and tried to sell it.

The Israel Antiquities Authority has announced the discovery of a rare cache of sacred vessels from the early days of the Kingdom of Judea.