Tag: Hasmonean dynasty

"The inscriptions were part of psychological warfare, the main purpose of which was to terrorize the opponent."

Among the items seized were a Hasmonean coin dating from the time of Matityahu Antigonus in the first century BCE with an embossment of the Temple Menorah.

“The building’s devastation is probably related to the region’s conquest by the Hasmonean leader Yochanan Horkenus around 112 BCE.”

The site covers an area of 30 acres and only a portion of the Second Temple period's Jericho.

It has been suggested that the menorah may have been a motif related to the Temple and the priesthood that served in it during this time.

Erasing this relic of Jewish history from the landscape is extremely important to the PA, whose official line is that there never was a Jewish presence in the area prior to the Zionist Congress of 1897.

The PA also broke a wall and blocked the water reservoirs at the ancient Jewish site of Tel Aruma.

If a letter arrived with a broken bulla, it meant it had been opened.

Apart from the cave of the skulls, the volunteers found dozens of new, illegal excavation sites, as well as the remains of the bonfires that the robbers lit on the progressively eroding mosaic floor at the top of the fortress.

The architecture of the Herodian bath is very similar to the baths and cisterns discovered in nearby Qumran (across the Dead Sea).

The Maccabeats present their Hanukkah Hamilton parody - Hasmonean.

The site reached the peak of its development in the Hellenistic period (3rd century BCE).