Jewish archeology

Israeli archaeologists launch project to trace origins of ancient pottery

The project, launched by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), aims to trace the origin of thousands of ceramic vessels even when the kilns where they were fired have long vanished.

Israelis families display pieces of pottery found while volunteering at an excavation at Tel Maresha at the Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park on Aug. 6, 2023.
An archeologist from the Israeli Antiquity Authority at the site of a 2nd Temple Subterranean System Discovered at the Western Wall tunnels underneath Jerusalem's Old City

Map reveals dozens of ancient quarries hidden beneath modern Jerusalem

Israel thwarts Palestinian attempt to pave over biblical city of Gibeon.

Israel thwarts Palestinian attempt to pave over biblical city of Gibeon

 ‘THEY ARE are organic. They can be burned.’ Ivory artifacts, like the figurines pictured here, were among the highest priority artifacts to be removed from the museum to safety.

How Israel safeguards archaeological treasures amid Iranian attacks


1,700-year-old inscriptions linked to ‘rabbis’ unearthed in Galilee

"The wealth of inscriptions from the cemeteries attests to the strong Jewish presence and the city’s social elite in the Late Roman period," says archaeologist.

Inscriptions from cemetery

Archaeologists reveal shocking stories of their past

Secret excavations were completed by a British officer under the Temple Mount.

THE SHADOW of members of the media is cast on a mosaic floor of an ancient church found near Jerusalem in 2011. In the 19th century, Crusader mosaic floors were uncovered in the Dome of the Rock.

Jewish history’s greatest archaeological crime

The Temple Mount Sifting Project, now in its 10th year, has uncovered hundreds of thousands of invaluable antiquities from tons of ancient debris discarded like trash from Judaism’s holiest site.

Barkay looks over priceless pieces of debris believed to date back to the First Temple period

Antiquities Authority attempts to solve mystery of Tomb of the Maccabees

"The descriptions from 150 years ago were revealed right here in front of our eyes, and we discovered the magnificent burial vaults," says archaeologist.

 Tomb of the Maccabees possibly uncovered in Modi’in

Israeli archaeologists uncover city gate in Goliath's hometown

Archeologists at Bar-Ilan University have discovered the remnants of the ancient city of Gath, one of the largest and most influential cities in the region.

Aerial view of the lower city of Philistine Gath with Iron Age fortifications and gate in foreground

Archaeologists discover 400,000 year-old case of manmade pollution near Tel Aviv

'This is one of the first, if not the first, cases of manmade pollution on the planet' said Professor Barkai, lead researcher at Tel Aviv University.

Researchers at Tel Aviv University discover 400,000 year old teeth

La Bible en temps réel

Les pierres de Lakish n’ont pas fini de révéler leurs secrets. Dans ces ruines se cache l’histoire de douloureux combats

L'ancien puits de Lakish

Tour Israel: The bounties of the Yatir region

Yatir is a place for people who are looking for something a little out of the ordinary, or to live their lives at a slower – but no less exciting – pace.

The synagogue at the archeological site of ancient Sussiya.

Suspected remains of Cervantes discovered

Confirming Cervantes’s Leonese origins would also confirm his crypto- Jewish life.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Ancient tablets reveal daily life of exiled Jews in Babylon 2,500 years ago

"It was like hitting the jackpot," says Filip Vukosavovic, an expert in ancient Babylonia, Sumeria and Assyria after reading the tablets.

Cuneiform tablets detailing the daily life of exiled Jews in ancinet Babylon (modern-day Iraq) 2,500 years ago, displayed at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem