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![]() Melanie LidmanThe Times of Israel |
For 2,000 years, since Passover seders first became a tradition, Jewish people have searched for innovative ways to make the ancient story of the...
RABAT, Morocco — Morocco is struggling to balance its alliance with Israel with support for the domestically popular Palestinian cause, an...
Shark was on the menu in Israel more than 6,000 years ago, archaeologists believe, after they uncovered one of the oldest known copper fishhooks in...
A massive study that sequenced the DNA of more than 3,525 grape cultivars from around the world, published this month in the journal Science, has...
When Eylon Levy, international spokesperson for President Isaac Herzog, picked up an ancient potsherd inscribed with Aramaic markings last December...
A stunning mosaic that greeted weary travelers as they traversed the Byzantine version of Route 6, the Trans-Israel Highway, is getting a reboot as a...
An ancient coin bearing the oldest-known depiction of the Temple menorah will go on display to the public for the first time on Monday with the...
A group of students taking a class on the history of early Jewish villages in northern Israel became part of the story they were studying last week...
A hiker in Israel’s Judean lowlands region recently discovered a 2,500-year-old pottery shard inscribed with the name of the Persian king Darius the...
When archaeologists excavated the remains of two brothers from more than 3,500 years ago in Megiddo, northern Israel, they weren’t expecting one of...
For some modern-day archaeologists, shovels and picks are now ancient history. The tools leading to breakthrough discoveries today are microscopes,...
The Start-up Nation’s crumbling concrete buildings show modern Israel has a thing or two to learn from 2,000-year-old Roman tech. Through...
A team of Israeli archaeologists announced it has discovered the earliest evidence of silver being used as currency in the Levant, dating back more...
Ahead of opening a burial cave dedicated to Salome, the midwife of Jesus, to the public, archaeologists have recently uncovered a number of priceless...
Israeli archaeologists have discovered the earliest evidence of cotton in the ancient Near East during excavations at Tel Tsaf, a 7,000-year-old town...
The Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem recently unearthed dozens of bronze and iron arrowheads dating from around the time of the Maccabees. But the...
BERLIN — A German-Iranian woman held for rights activism in Iran was sent back to prison, after being granted medical leave four months ago, her...
Australian indie rocker Xavier Rudd grew up with a special fondness for making music using the hose from the vacuum cleaner. It was an apt beginning...
COPENHAGEN — Three years ago, Danish neo-Nazi groups vandalized more than 80 graves in a Jewish cemetery in Randers on the anniversary of...
On June 28, Nina Gordon-Kirsch picked up her backpack, opened the door to her Oakland, California, home and started walking. The 33-year-old activist...