2,000-year-old stone vessel factory in Jerusalem
A rare stone vessel workshop dating to the late Second Temple period some 2,000 years ago was recently discovered on the eastern
Isaiah Scroll on show in entirety for 1st time since 1968
The Great Isaiah Scroll, the oldest nearly complete book from the Hebrew Bible ever found, is on display in its full length
Ancient Pilgrimage Road leading to Temple Mount opens to public after 13 years of excavations
The Pilgrimage Road, a circa first-century route linking the Pool of Siloam to the foot of the Temple Mount, has been opened to
Rare half-shekel coin used in biblical census count discovered by archaeologists in Judean Desert
A rare half-shekel coin, similar to those used in the biblical census commandment, was recently discovered by members of the Israel Antiquities
Baking Like the Ancient Israelites
In his book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, well-known food author Michael Pollan observes a curious paradox regarding cooking within American culture:
53 People in the Bible Confirmed Archaeologically
In “Archaeology Confirms 50 Real People in the Bible” in the March/April 2014 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Purdue University scholar Lawrence Mykytiuk lists 50
Stone seal from biblical Kingdom of Judea discovered in northern Israel
A stone seal believed to have been used by a high-ranking administrative official during the time of the Kingdom of Judah in
2,700-year-old carving may have been the earliest-known depiction of Jerusalem
For millennia, hundreds of vivid bas-reliefs adorned the walls of the Nineveh palace of the legendary eighth-century BCE Assyrian king Sennacherib, depicting
Mikveh/Maqwah (ritual purification bath) from the final days of the Second Temple period
A rock-hewn mikveh (ritual purification bath) dating to the final days of the Second Temple period, bearing ash remains that testify to
How biblical Israel imported a steady flow of African ivory
Ivory from sub-Saharan Africa was imported to the Land of Israel between 1600- 600 BCE, overcoming geopolitical changes in both arenas, a new
