Israel Antiquities Authority treasure trove of finds includes 6,000-year-old skeleton of a woman, the oldest basket in the world, biblical scroll fragments dating back to the Bar Kochba Revolt, along with coins from that same ...
Until now, the oldest evidence of olive production for eating dated back some 4,000 years
The flint tools in question, which were known as ‘chopping tools’, were found at the prehistoric site of Revadim, located east of Ashdod
The team from the University of Haifa's Zinman Institute of Archeology explained that the stone was found on Mount Carmel and is believed to date back 350,000 years
Find solves 86-year-old archeological mystery; small number of ancient ceramic oil lamps decorated with distinctively Jewish symbols such as the shofar, incense burner and seven-branched menorah
The ancient Pilgrimage Road once served as the main route for pilgrims walking from the Pool of Siloam, where Jews going to the Temple would ritually purify themselves traveling to the holy site, during the ...
This is the first time in fifty years that a gold cache from the Fatimid period has been discovered in the Old City
According to the Tel Aviv University team, this could mean that “many of the inhabitants of the kingdom of Judah during that period were able to read and write, with literacy not reserved as an ...
The stone artifacts date back to the First Temple times during the period of the Kings of Judah
According to the researchers, the first historically attested wave of what was to become known as the Black Plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, spread across the Byzantine Empire and beyond, in 541 CE ...
