The plant, which is famously mentioned in the Bible, Talmud and throughout history, was used ‘as one of the more expensive ingredients for producing the Temple incense, perfume, as well as medicines and ointments’
The discovery is an indication that life for the rich 2,700-years-ago was indeed better with a private toilet being a luxury.
Coins date back to the ‘The Great Revolt’ and Bar-Kokhba Revolt of the Second Temple period and include inscriptions such as ‘The Freedom of Zion’ and ‘The Freedom of Jerusalem’
It was built around 20–30 CE and the structure is believed to have stood along a street leading up to the Temple Mount
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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 only the second time that a menorah has been discovered on a Jewish tomb from the period preceding the Bar-Kokhba revolt
This is the first time in fifty years that a gold cache from the Fatimid period has been discovered in the Old City
The stone artifacts date back to the First Temple times during the period of the Kings of Judah
