Iron Age

Civil Administration recovers dozens of looted artifacts from West Bank site

A targeted operation at "Burj Lasana," in Area B, near Wadi Haramiya, recovered Crusader- and Byzantine-era items from a villa built inside the site.

|ByANNA BARSKY
The Civil Administration seizes dozens of archaeological artifacts from the Burj Lasana site north of Ramallah in the West Bank, December 4, 2025.
Celtic teenager buried face down in Dorset pit may reveal Iron Age human sacrifice.

Celtic teenager buried face down in Dorset pit may reveal Iron Age human sacrifice

"This has the sense of a body thrown into a pit, with hands potentially tied," archaeologist Miles Russell said.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A three-camera stereoscopic imaging kit is used to create accurate 3D models of underwater artifacts.

Sunken secrets: earliest iron-age cargoes in Israel’s Tantura lagoon

Research in Antiquity identifies the three wrecks as Israel’s earliest submerged cargoes, proving coastal trade survived long after the late bronze age collapse.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The El Ahwat archeological site in northern Samaria.

Microscopic Clues Rewrite History of Bronze Production in the Biblical Highlands

Analysis of 3,000-year-old smelting droplets shows copper from Timna and Feinan was alloyed with tin at a mountain site in Samaria, revealing a budding regional trade and technology network.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Why was an Iron Age woman buried with a folding knife driven into the ground?

Archaeologists in Pryssgården, southern Sweden, uncovered an Iron Age burial site with around 50 graves.

DECEMBER 17, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Why was an Iron Age woman buried with a folding knife driven into the ground? Pryssgården.