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Who are you, Yerubbaal? Was the Judge Gideon the owner of this ancient vessel inscribed with his nickname?
“The new route provides a better understanding of the complex and important site known as the Western Wall tunnels."
By Israel 21C
80-million-year-old shark teeth discovered in a 2,900-year-old house, nowhere near similar fossils, may have been valued as collectibles.
A glimmer of hope in a region not always known for getting along.
Chronological research at the Boker Tachtit site in Ein Avdat National Park provides the first proof of the two cultures’ coexistence in the Negev.
How did the egg end up in the cesspit? We'll never know.
Khirbet Jahush is located in agricultural land between Kiryat Ata and Highway 70 in northern Israel and was inhabited from the Byzantine period to the Middle Ages.
The Roman Basilica complex, the largest of its kind in the country, was unearthed in Israel Antiquities Authority archaeological excavations.
Tova Haviv, the moshav Arbel member who discovered the object passed away recently and his family donated it to the National Treasures Center.
Mazar directed excavations in the City of David and the Temple Mount’s southern wall.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“It is likely that the two halves of the lamps were created in the same artisan house and may even have served as a pair to one complete piece,” says Hungarian archaeologist Gabor Lassanyi.
The first discovery of its kind in Jerusalem and one of the few in the world.
We’ve been at it a long time, researchers say.
Major cracks in King Herod’s Phasael Tower being repaired to lessen risk of collapse.
"We correlate the increase in human brain volume with the need to become smarter hunters," explains Dr. Ben-Dor.
According to experts, there are very few extant Esther scrolls from the medieval period in general, and from the fifteenth century in particular.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Palestinian Authority took ancients stones from the site and ground them down into gravel to pave a road.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Hershel Shanks spearheaded the release of the photographs of Dead Sea Scroll fragments that had never before been published.
The find was reported to the National Treasures Department of the Israel Antiquities Authority and the soldier received a certificate of appreciation for good citizenship.
Olives are a key component of the human diet, culinary culture, and economy of the Mediterranean region.
Yoram Haimi, Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist: “I have been excavating this site for ten years, but today I broke down.”
Assaf Peretz, an expert on modern-day weapons at the IAA, identified the grenade as a Mills 23 that was used by the British army in the First World War.
Engraved in stone, the Greek inscription is part of a lintel originally set in the frame of a church entrance from the late Byzantine period.
The researchers analyzed a sample of 53 chopping tools from Revadim, looking for use-wear traces and organic residues.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Among the remains are mikvahs, ritual baths, which were hewn in the days of the Second Temple and were used until the Byzantine period, burial caves, an oil press, underground systems, and impressive structures from the Ottoman period.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Inspectors found thousands of items including many rare finds dating from the 1st millennium BCE through the 11th century CE.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The IDF was alerted to the scene but the bandits fled before they could be arrested.
The next evidence of tools being used for erosion is found only about 150,000 years later. Was this ability lost until it was "found" again after so many years?
An intact oil lamp was discovered in the City of David's Pilgrimage Road.
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.
By Tzachi Dvira
Various types of jewelry are mentioned in the Bible, and different suggestions have been made in the research of their identification, but the identity of most of the terms has yet to be settled.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to researchers, the tiny gem seal, the third ever found in Jerusalem from the Second Temple period, was likely the property of a Jew.
In a time when it’s hard to focus on the future as the present seems so uncertain, the Tower of David Museum is proud to announce the start of a $40 million renewal plan.
Researchers studied the management of the ancient garbage sites.
The online conference, titled "The Land that I Will Show You," will run Sunday, October 25, through Wednesday, October 28.
The Israeli team found that early humans may have had a good understanding of the effects of heating the stone before flaking it into blades, and they may have used different temperatures to create different types of tools.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It was found in a manuscript written just after the Expulsion, which was likely used by Catalonian exiles living in Provence.
Recognizing past earthquakes can be extremely challenging in the archaeological record, especially at sites where there isn’t much stone masonry and degradable construction materials.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Waqf which has destroyed Jewish artifacts on the Temple Mount covered up the hole with cement.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Tzfat was considered a major city for commercial and cultural activities with ties to the Jewish communities in Damascus, Aleppo and all Mediterranean cities.
The production of olive oil soap is mentioned in writings since the 10th century CE and has been a significant industry in the region from the Middle Ages and until the early 20th century.
The long memory of the Jewish People in the service of science.
Israeli archaeologists discovered new and compelling evidence for a significant economic downturn on the fringe of the Byzantine Empire in the aftermath of a major pandemic in the mid-6th century CE.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The 1500-year-old font was stolen by Arab dealers in 2000. In 2002, the local Palestinian Authority (PA) municipality placed it near the mayor’s house, allegedly pending the construction of a museum.
The research reveals that the migration from Africa occurred during a period of a global ice age and supports the belief that the adaptations that made humanity the dominant species on Earth appeared early on in our evolution.
Hundreds of Israeli and Jewish heritage and archaeology sites in Judea and Samaria would be removed from Israeli control and transferred to the PA.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The damaged site includes archaeological findings from the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Early Muslim periods.
For the past 15 years the stone is weighing heavily on his heart.
After the PA learned of the rare collection's existence, it has repeatedly confiscated pieces from the collection. PA officials may have privately sold some of them.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The PA also broke a wall and blocked the water reservoirs at the ancient Jewish site of Tel Aruma.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Inside were 350 objects, including artifacts from the World War I and 18 cap badges with the initials of Austro-Hungarian emperor Franz Joseph, who ruled from 1848 until his death in 1916.
Excavating in antiquities sites without a license and destroying such sites constitute severe violations of the law in Israel, for which the law prescribes up to five years in prison.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Arabs turned a millennia old burial cave into a water cistern.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s Foreign Ministry hailed the reopening as a product of “long and strenuous” negotiations with French authorities.
The destruction of archeological findings is commonplace in Judea and Samaria and is often used as a political tool to deny the historical Jewish presence in the region.
Tiny flint specimens were not merely industrial waste left over from the production of larger tools, but were deliberately produced from recycled discarded artifacts and intended for a specific use.
The newly uncovered fortifications are nearly double the size of the previous fortifications found at the site.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The dig also uncovered a horn-shaped edge of a stone altar, dated to the Iron Age, also referred to as the Israelite period, 1200–586 BCE.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
These genetic results are a critical step toward understanding the long-disputed origins of the Philistines, the research underscored.
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman had the honor of opening the path to the rediscovered City of David's Pilgrimage Road.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
This is the first collaboration between an Israeli museum and one of the largest and most highly regarded museums in the world, the BLMJ underscored.
The discovery of the name of an ancient city in archaeological investigations is a relatively rare occurrence. The name of the city of Elusa is well-known from historical sources, however this is the first archaeological evidence of the name from the site itself.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Measuring 2,422 square feet in area, its maximum volume is around 300,000 gallons.
In Judea and Samaria specifically, there is rampant destruction of ancient sites. The methods used by the antiquities looters to uncover and expose the findings are brutal, causing irreversible damage.
By Ilanit Chernick In an exciting and rare find announced on the eve of Chanukah, a small ceramic pomegranate dating back to the times of the Mishkan (Tabernacle) in the First Iron Age was found in ancient Shiloh, the ancient Shiloh Visitors’ Center said on Sunday morning. At the end of the pomegranate is a […]
Antiquities theft and smuggling is a known phenomenon that has plagued ancient sites across Israel, especially Judea and Samaria, for years.
By JNi.Media
The size of the fish indicated a transition to marine agriculture: as of 3,500 years ago, they were down to "plate size," about one pound in weight and 15 inches in length.
Technology such as LiDAR and a drone-mounted 4K camera have led to significant finds among layers of settlement spanning about 2,600 years.
By JNi.Media
If a letter arrived with a broken bulla, it meant it had been opened.
By JNi.Media
A microscopic examination two of the three craters showed microscopic remains of starch grains that underwent morphological changes which correspond to changes in starch during fermentation.
“We were surprised when we were presented with the rare figurine, which is about 11,500 years old.”
By JNi.Media
Haifa University's Prof. Ruth Shahak-Gross says Savannah shepherds were not harmful to the ecosystem, and instead enriched and diversified the ecosystem.
By JNi.Media
"This study of 22 individuals is one of the largest ancient DNA studies carried out from a single archaeological site, and by far the largest ever reported in the Near East."
By JNi.Media
"I intuited that there was something hidden there," Geller recalled.
By JNi.Media
The earring will be on display for the general public at the City of David's annual archeological conference. “Whoever wore it belonged to Jerusalem's upper class.”
By JNi.Media
"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."
By JNi.Media
A marvelous new mosaic was discovered in archaeological excavations carried out prior to construction, on the site of the planned Shelby White and Leon Levy Mosaic Center in Lod.
Jerusalem archaeologists have unearthed an access road leading from the Kidron Valley and Shiloah Pool to the Temple Mount,
By JNi.Media
Historical evidence suggests that at least at the beginning of Muslim rule, the new regime treated the local Christian population with great tolerance.
By JNi.Media
Archaeologists slid the vessels on ropes 30 yards down a sheer cliff.
By JNi.Media
Over its history, the Jewish community of Cologne has suffered persecutions, many expulsions, massacres and destruction.
By JNi.Media
“The size of the object, its shape, and the text on it indicate that it was apparently used as an amulet for blessing and protection.”
By JNi.Media
The $28 Million preservation and reconstruction of the walls, fortifications, towers, and Crusaders’ market is open to the general public.
By JNi.Media
Rare burial complex may throw new light on life in Tiberias in the Roman period, 2,000 years ago.
The winepress was found in the largest water reservoir in the Tzippori National Park.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Students from Sharon region are helping excavate Byzantine-era site as part of a local initiative to spark an interest in history among youth.
By JNi.Media
A new exhibition follows the thread of the mysterious blue color, tekhelet, from the Mediterranean shores over 3,500 years ago to the national colors of the State of Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Five exceptionally rare ancient coins from among the very first ever minted by Jews were discovered on the Temple Mount, evidence of Jewish activity at the Jewish holy site.
By JNi.Media
In 1999, during an illegal excavation conducted by the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement and the Waqf, 9,000 tons of antiquities-rich earth was removed from the Temple Mount and dumped in the nearby Kidron Valley.
By JNi.Media
A skull slashed by a sword and palm bones from approximately 1,000 years ago discovered in a cave in the Jerusalem hills.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
As Jews across Israel and around the world celebrated Lag B’Omer, Israeli authorities announced that they had found a symbol of the Shimon bar Kochba revolt against the Romans in the form of a small bronze coin.
By JNi.Media
An Israel Antiquities Authority researcher examined scroll fragments with the aid of advanced imaging equipment at the Dead Sea Scrolls’ conservation labs, and was thrilled to discover letters that are invisible to the naked eye.
Some of the most important 21st century finds have been on her digs, putting her in the spotlight of Biblical Archaeology. Today on Rejuvenation Eve Harow speaks with Dr. Eilat Mazar about the challenges digging in a city at the heart of so many issues, and of discoveries yet to come.
By JNi.Media
This year in the Galilee, thousands of students have been excavating and organizing the first “smart trail," in which dozens of stones on the trail will transmit information and activities to hikers’ mobile phones.
By JNi.Media
The Cairo Genizah International Project of the Haifa, Oxford, Princeton and Pennsylvania universities presents one of the ancient haggadahs discovered so far, opening a window to Medieval Passover customs.
By JNi.Media
“A discovery like this—ancient coins bearing the words 'Freedom' and 'Redemption'—found right before the Jewish Festival of Freedom, Passover, begins, is incredibly moving,” Dr. Mazar noted.
By JNi.Media
A new study at the University of Haifa shows the first archaeological evidence of the role of pigeons in Byzantine agriculture in the Negev: reclamation and fertilization of vineyards and orchards.
By JNi.Media
The gardener Dekel Ben-Shitrit, who gave the unusual object to the National Treasures Department, will receive a good citizenship certificate from the Israel Antiquities Authority National Treasure Department.
By JNi.Media
The mosaic was uncovered as part of the largest conservation and reconstruction project ever undertaken in Israel, made possible by a with an investment of close to $30 million by the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation.
July 3, 2026 
