Over the course of the decade-long Huqoq excavation project, the team made a series of discoveries including depictions of Noah’s Ark, the parting of the Red Sea, a Helios-zodiac cycle, and more.
Archaeologists have found a burial site in the Negev containing ancient skeletons that may have belonged to trafficked women.
In this comprehensive study, Prof. Yosef Garfinkel examines the earliest fortified sites in the kingdom of Judah during the 10th century BCE.
A new study by the University of Haifa claims to completely change the story of the biblical Shikmona.
At the entrance to Herodium is a cluster of boulders at the foot of the hilltop, behind a sign that reads “Rolling stones from the time of the Jewish revolts against Rome.”
The exhibit is the first time that the manuscript of Moreh Nevuchim, meaning Guide to the Perplexed, will be available for the public to see.
The coin comes from the reign of the Hasmonean King Antigonus II Mattathias, who ruled from 40 BCE to 37 BCE. He was the last Jewish king, his death marking the end of Jewish sovereignty until 1948.
‘They took a piece of history from us,’ bemoaned Israel Antiquities Authority
Samson, a biblical golem, ended up killing himself, with the Philistines, when he pulled the temple in Gaza down on them. But somehow, his tribe members brought his body up here for burial.
The artifact was found along the Pilgrimage Road that connects the City of David to the Temple Mount and is a snapshot of the bustling commercial life in biblical Israel.
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