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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 528

antiquities

A display showcases a stele and multiple artifacts during a media event to announce new discoveries by an Egyptian archaeological mission at Queen Hatshepsut's Valley Temple in Deir El-Bahari on the Nile's west bank in Luxor on January 8, 2025. (Khaled Desouk/AFP)
January 8, 2025, 9:07 pm
Egypt unveils new discoveries near Luxor, including 3,600-year-old burial shafts
Archaeologists find sealed coffin, archery bows in Queen Hatshepsut’s Valley Temple, dating back to 16th century BCE, coins from 3rd century CE with image of Alexander the Great
By AP
A volunteer from the Border Police with a suspect apprehended while attempting to loot the Horbat Binit site in the lower Galilee, in an image released on December 23, 2024. (courtesy Israel Antiquities Authority)
December 23, 2024, 3:09 pm
Cops put squeeze on suspected looters at ancient olive oil complex
Four suspects, already under investigation, nabbed while attempting to loot artifacts from remote Galilee site linked to Hasmoneans
By Gavriel Fiske
An ancient tablet with an inscription of the Ten Commandments, to be auctioned in December 2024 by Sotheby's. (Screen capture via YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 13, 2024, 9:03 pm
Oldest inscribed Ten Commandments to be auctioned in December
Two-foot tall, 115 pound marble tablet is inscribed in Paleo-Hebrew, with Samaritan variant of Ten Commandments, including an injunction to worship on Mount Gerizim
By ToI Staff
A visitor at the hands-on exhibit at the National Campus for the Archeology of Israel in Jerusalem with museum guide Yehuda Maimoun. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
November 9, 2024, 8:31 am
View ancient treasures at Jerusalem’s new national archeology campus
The Israel Antiquities Authority’s brand-new digs are more than a museum. While checking out the exhibits, visitors can also watch the archaeological process unfold in real time
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Ron Cobi, a former mayor of Tiberias and a candidate for the job, stands atop a hill overlooking his city in Israel on August 22, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
September 20, 2023, 10:42 am
Local elections turn placid Tiberias into unlikely front in Israel’s societal clash
Haredi and secularist extremism, as well as the alleged involvement of a former politician with a criminal record, are muddying the lakeside city’s political waters
By Canaan Lidor
View of an arch in Caesarea's ancient Roman aqueduct that collapsed on August 18, 2023. (Muhammad Khater/Israel Antiquities Authority)
August 18, 2023, 3:33 pm
2,000-year-old arch in Caesarea aqueduct collapses; official: ‘We sounded the alarm’
Antiquities Authority issues angry statement saying repeated pleas for preservation work at famous site were ignored, warns Acre’s aqueduct faces even greater danger of ruin
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A pointer is used to follow the Hebrew written passages in the Torah. (AP Photo/ Rogelio Solis)
June 8, 2023, 9:05 pm
‘Priceless’ 18th-century Torah to be on ‘Antiques Roadshow’ UK
The Reform Kehillat Kernow congregation in Cornwall calls the incredible scroll its ‘most sacred possession’
By Michelle Rosenberg
Philanthropist Shelby White poses for a picture on the roughly 1,700-year-old Lod mosaic, ahead of the inauguration of a new visitors center she helped fund to display the prized piece in the Israeli city of Lod, June 27, 2022. (Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images)
February 18, 2023, 1:32 am
New York antiquities trafficking unit focuses on US patron of Israeli archaeology
Shelby White has already relinquished two dozen items worth at least $20 million due to investigations
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Michelangelo's fresco 'La Creazione' ('The Creation') on the ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri)
June 5, 2022, 2:32 pm
Is God circumcised? How people in ancient times viewed the Heavenly Body
In new book, Francesca Stavrakopoulou displays God as portrayed by His early worshipers: with genitals, passions, powers – and a penchant for the monstrous
By Rich Tenorio
This undated photo provided by the Fitton family shows Jim Fitton with his wife Sarijah. (Fitton family via AP)
May 15, 2022, 7:40 pm
British, German tourists deny smuggling antiquities out of Iraq
Jim Fitton and Volker Waldmann were arrested separately at Baghdad airport when found in possession of ancient pottery shards, and theoretically face death penalty if found guilty
By SAMYA KULLAB
Looted antiquities worth $5-million, seized from billionaire hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt, are displayed in the offices of the Manhattan District Attorney, in New York, March 22, 2022. (Richard Drew/AP)
March 22, 2022, 10:42 pm
Looted artifacts seized from billionaire Steinhardt to return to Israel
Among 39 objects seized from hedge fund manager: 2 gold masks dating from about 5000 BCE valued at $500,000, and a set of 3 death masks from 6000-7000 BCE worth a total of $650,000
By Karen Matthews and Ilan Ben Zion
Three 1,500-year-old 'magic' incantation bowls created in the 5th-7th centuries in present day Iraq that were seized from an alleged illegal antiquities' dealer's home in Jerusalem (Yoli Schwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority)
March 7, 2022, 1:41 pm
‘Magic’ bowls among trove of ancient artifacts seized in raid on Jerusalem home
Ramat Shlomo resident suspected of illegal antiquities trade had three 1,500-year-old incantation bowls from Iraq, hundreds of other rare treasures
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A sculpture of a young man from about 560 BCE, known as a kouros, is presented at a news conference at the offices of the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in New York, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022. (AP/David R. Martin)
February 24, 2022, 1:17 am
Looted artifacts seized from philanthropist Steinhardt returned to Greece
2,500-year-old sculpture of young man, worth some $14 million, among dozens of antiquities being repatriated from collection of Birthright co-founder as part of massive settlement
By Karen Matthews
Members of a French-Iraqi archaeological expedition work on a dig at the site of the Sumerian city-state of Larsa, in the Qatiaah area of Iraq's southern province of Dhi Qar near the city of Nasiriyah, on November 23, 2021. (Asaad Niazi/AFP)
January 12, 2022, 2:40 pm
After years of war, European archaeologists return to Iraq for rare finds
Researchers say area is a ‘paradise’ for exploring ancient civilizations
By Guillaume Decamme
In this April 24, 2021 file photo, people visit the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Old Cairo, April 24, 2021 (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)
June 27, 2021, 12:12 pm
Egypt arrests former lawmaker for allegedly smuggling antiquities
Flamboyant ex-MP Alaa Hassanein suspected of leading group that stole tablets, statues, Classical-era coins, black basalt plates; allegations carry life sentence
By AFP
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