Archaeology

As part of a project being led by the IAA and aimed at educating young people about their past, dozens of boys and girls were engaged in the challenging work of unearthing the coastal city’s past.

Researchers say the papyrus may be the earliest evidence in Hebrew of the connection between the city of Jerusalem and the period of the Kings of Israel.

A stone shelf was found there which the researchers estimate was used for mangers, as well as tying stones with rock-hewn rings that were probably used to tie horses.

The inscription in the Samaritan winepress is additional testimony to the extensive Samaritan settlement in the southern Sharon Plain during the Byzantine period.

This was probably an administrative site built to control the surrounding farmsteads during the Assyrian period.

Should the platform not be dismantled, the magnificent Robinson's Arch archaeological site would be destroyed, making "its very exposure a source of eternal lamentations."

The carbon dating matches the description by historian Flavius Josephus who wrote that Pilate used the Temple treasury to build an aqueduct.

"This time, thanks to the national project initiated by the IAA, we managed to beat the looters and preserve these fascinating finds."

History records the siege of Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, but archaeologists never have found evidence of the famine that plagued Jews – until now.

Despite the apparent importance of The Northern Line, its construction is not mentioned in any contemporary documents.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry hailed the reopening as a product of “long and strenuous” negotiations with French authorities.

"The war creates extraordinary situations on the archaeological front as well."

Construction began about 80 meters away from the walls of the city of Lachish, close to where stones required for the ramp could be quarried.

The tomb of a previously unknown Egyptian queen has been discovered at Abu Sir.

A rare monastery seal was discovered in a Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem -- and presented to the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, who noted its importance.

The TAU team dug up the remains of the skeleton several hundred feet from an Egyptian temple, suggesting she may have been a musician or a singer.

The tests were ordered on the request of several biblical scholars who examined 13 of the museum's fragments said and noted there was a "high probability" that at lest some of them were modern forgeries.

The Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology has published Volume 4 on the archaeology of Jerusalem.

This year's excavation uncovered large sections of the bimah, which was originally two stories tall, and was built in the 18th century with a donation from the rich and well-connected Yesod (Yehudah Safra ve-Dayana).

"In the register beneath the double line is an inscription in ancient Hebrew: 'LESARAR,' with no spacing between the words and no definite article. It denotes 'Lesar Ha'Ir,' meaning 'belonging to the governor of the city.'"

"The extremely long duration of the production of these near-identical jars indicates that the workshop was probably a family-owned business that passed down from generation to generation."

The famous Battle of Karney Hittin that was fought on July 4, 1187, resulting in the defeat of the Crusader Kingdom by Saladin's army, was a direct outcome of the events in Tiberias.

"Who Are You, Eshbaʽal Ben Beda?" The fourth inscription revealed so far dating to the Kingdom of Judah.

"It should be noted that in our region, almost only men were depicted in figurines as riding horses, while women were carved in the context of fertility, motherhood, and sexuality."

The beautiful scarab was found at the foot of Tel Reches, one of the most important tels (hills) in the north of the country.

Israel's envoy to UNESCO says the exhibit is a reminder that Jews were expelled by force from the Temple Mount.

We’ve been at it a long time, researchers say.

This might be the earliest example of written Hebrew found to date.

"Jerusalem demonstrates that wherever one turns over a stone ancient artifacts will be found related to the city’s glorious past."

Impressive gold jewelry found in a burial cave in Jerusalem were worn by young girls as amulets against the Evil Eye 1,800 years ago.