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On January 26, Shooki Levine witnessed the aftershocks of what he describes as a “terrorist attack.” At an extremely rare early Iron Age...
Israeli researchers have found three textile scraps near the southern tip of Israel colored with the biblically described “argaman” royal purple...
Swedish composer Jacob Mühlrad’s new work, “Kaddish,” begins with an amorphous rumble. To this writer, the deep tones were reminiscent of...
BEIJING — China’s Foreign Ministry described outgoing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday as a “doomsday clown” and said his...
With the words, “Christ born of Mary,” archaeologists have discovered the first evidence of an early Christian settlement from 1,500 years ago in...
QASR Al-YAHUD — With the completion of an intensive multi-year international mission to remove thousands of deadly landmines, a select group of...
A year ago when we decided to reboot the weekly Times of Israel podcast, I volunteered to be among the first to pick up the mic. In the past year,...
Since most archaeologists had to hang up their shovels during pandemic-stricken 2020, they suddenly had time to work on their research and there’s a...
Proving a network of elusive Bronze Age trade routes is like pulling teeth for scholars. Taking that quite literally, the lead authors of a new...
A Second Temple-era ritual bath that was recently uncovered on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives at the site believed to be the New Testament’s...
History is being rewritten at Jerusalem’s Tower of David Museum. The recent discovery of an inscription dated to the 13th century CE has wound the...
A complete rare, early Islamic-era oil lamp workshop that was excavated this summer in ancient Tiberias on the shores of the Sea of Galilee has gone...
What is arguably the earliest inscribed clay seal impression from the Land of Israel — used at the court of Israelite King Jeroboam II — has been...
Just ahead of Hanukkah, a forgotten 2,000-year-old charcoal drawing of the Temple menorah is again seeing the light of day. First uncovered 40 years...
This week The Times of Israel Podcast is taking you on a journey through thousands of years of history and archaeology at the Tower of David Museum in...
A first, First Temple-era gold bead was revealed during wet sifting of earth from the Temple Mount in August, when nine-year-old Jerusalemite Binyamin...
At the request of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, a crack team of Israelis swooped into the war-, storm-, and famine-struck country on November...
Well prior to the current coronavirus crisis, many Israelis were living each day under existential threats. At the same time, Israelis are a...
Dating to around the time of King David 3,000 years ago, what may be the earliest fortified settlement in the Golan Heights was recently discovered...
The rescue mission to lift out some 100 Second Temple-era vessels from an underground cistern was well under way when The Times of Israel visited the...
There are some 750,000 coins stored in one room in a well-protected Israel Antiquities Authority vault and Donald T. Ariel, the head of the IAA’s...
Discovery of a rare 2,000-year-old signet ring engraved with the Greek sun god Apollo gives new evidence of a pluralistic Jewry walking the streets of...
One of the earliest churches in Israel was recently discovered at the foot of breathtaking waterfalls in the scenic Banias Nature Reserve in...
To mark the second anniversary of the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue shooting, the Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora...
Salvage excavations of a 14th century Mamluk roadside inn near the IDF’s Nafah army base have unveiled the first Roman border stone found in the...
Tel Aviv University is forging a SWAT team of professional scholars to record and preserve the rare, living Ethiopian Jewish oral tradition, which is...
A timid ultra-Orthodox bride experiences terrible pain while attempting to fulfill her “wifely duties.” Despite repeated attempts, the situation...
Prof. Yehoshua Blau, a giant in the field of Semitic languages, died in Jerusalem on October 20, 2020 at the age of 101. The Israel Prize winner was...
A uniquely inscribed 2,700-year-old limestone two shekel weight recently discovered in earth excavated near the Western Wall in Jerusalem is a “very...
From the faded black-and-white photos of the 1920s Megiddo excavation staff, you’d never think that decades later a successor would be digging up...
Ancient man harnessed the power of fire to skillfully forge specific stone tools, some 300,000 years ago, according to a new study from researchers at...
A new archaeological study shows that even some 6,500 years ago, Israel was already a start-up nation — complete with a metallurgy R&D hub in...
Pottery production was man’s work back in Iron Age Israel. A new Israeli study comparing the dimensions of hundreds of ceramic storage jars over 350...
The Tomb of the Patriarchs is revered by all Abrahamic religions and is considered by Jews to be the second holiest spot after the Temple Mount. Like...