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Adulatory responses include ‘Everyone should read it,’ ‘Explains so much’; Guardian removes 2002 text; White House slams...
For weeks, archaeologists have been searching the burned homes of the Gaza border communities, using methods honed for historical excavations to help...
Protests held in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities as relatives mark 36 days since hundreds taken captive by Hamas; some demonstrators decry...
When elephants started disappearing from the Middle East some 400,000 years ago, it was a major crisis, and not just for the ancient elephants. Early...
Archaeologists have been scratching their heads for decades, trying to figure out the purpose of tens of thousands of roughly hewn limestone balls...
Archaeologists have discovered four 1,900-year-old Roman swords in a cave in the Judean Desert, which experts believe were captured by the Judean...
I’d been sick for at least eight months when I finally did enough internet research to diagnose myself with long COVID. It felt simultaneously like...
The round knoll of Tel Shimron rises majestically some 70 meters (230 feet) above the Jezreel Valley — but that wasn’t high enough for the rulers...
Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known gate in Israel, a 5,500-year-old imposing stone and mud-brick passageway to the ancient city of Tel...
Experts from Rome have wrapped up weeks of careful archaeological work in one of the most sensitive parts of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,...
Indiana Jones popularized the figure of the lone, heroic archaeologist. With a wide-brimmed hat, loose white shirt, and eyes squinting into the desert...
Two months is the amount of time needed to completely wrap up the life of a family of five, sell the house and belongings, transfer all their money...
While on the search for more Dead Sea Scrolls, inspectors surveying Israel’s desert caves recently discovered a rare half-shekel coin from 66 or 67...
A sword that was discovered by a diver off the coast of northern Israel in 2021 was likely lost overboard during a fierce naval battle between...
Researchers are using highly precise chemical analysis and artificial intelligence to determine the likely source of stones from which ancient humans...
A large cave near Beit Shemesh may have once been seen as a portal to the underworld and used for ritual magic some 1,700 years ago, according to an...
The fortified city of Tel Gezer, mentioned in the Bible as an ancient royal Canaanite city, has stood for 3,500 years with its massive stone walls,...
The drone of a massive underwater vacuum cleaner pierces the silence at one of Israel’s most picturesque locations, a calm lagoon at Dor Beach where...
Parts of a well-preserved and colorful 1,600-year-old mosaic, including scenes from the story of Samson and depictions of a tiger hunting an ibex,...
A network of fortified cities around Jerusalem has been dated to the time of King David, more than 200 years earlier than previously thought, offering...
The scarlet, purple, and sapphire hues that adorned curtains and robes at the Holy Temple in Jerusalem likely came from sea snails processed at a...
Cuneiform is the oldest known form of writing, but it is so difficult to read that only a few hundred experts around the world can decode the clay...
15% of public is estimated to be holding antiquities in their home that by law belong to the state; Israel Antiquities Authority’s collection...
Archaeologists are hearing for the first time how humans made music some 12,000 years ago, by recreating a flute that was likely used to hunt ducks...
More than 180 British athletes and family members are in Israel this week for the third annual Veterans Games, a friendly competition between Israeli...
Homebrewers will soon be able to time travel with their taste buds and brew beer similar to what the Philistines in Goliath’s hometown of Gath...
A 1,800-year-old burial cave in northern Israel was nearly destroyed after a family building their house failed to report the discovery of antiquities...
Call it a 12th-century Duolingo. After recently rediscovering a 900-year-old scrap of paper once housed in the Cairo Geniza, researchers believe that...