search
archaeology
Times of Israel Podcasts
LISTEN: At Shiloh, archaeologist finds artifacts hinting at biblical Tabernacle
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
With Texan chutzpah, Dr. Scott Stripling says all digs must start wet-sifting their earth, as he recovers overlooked ancient items at the first Israelite priestly capital
Dr. Scott Stripling at the site of ancient Shiloh, May 2017. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
January 16, 2020, 2:27 pm
LISTEN: At Shiloh, archaeologist finds artifacts hinting at biblical Tabernacle
With Texan chutzpah, Dr. Scott Stripling says all digs must start wet-sifting their earth, as he recovers overlooked ancient items at the first Israelite priestly capital
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The tell of Abel Beth Maacah from the northwest, with the Golan Heights in the background. (photo credit: Ferrell Jenkins)
January 10, 2020, 11:29 am
Hebrew nametag on ancient wine jar reopens debate on size of Israelite kingdom
The area of Abel Beth Maacah, near Metula, was previously thought to be outside of Hebrew domain during 10th-9th century BCE
By TOI staff
The 2,000-year-old volumes measuring table, pictured here on the City of David's Pilgrims' Path. (Kobi Harati, City of David archive)
January 6, 2020, 1:31 pm
City of David archaeologists say 2,000-year-old central Jerusalem market found
Stone table top used to measure liquid volumes located in large courtyard in City of David’s Stepped Street, which archaeologists believe was the central market
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Visitors at the Qumran archaeological site, January 22, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
January 1, 2020, 4:43 pm
Digging the land: The top 10 Holy Land archaeology stories of 2019
A purely subjective list from the ToI’s archaeology editor on objectively important discoveries
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Five ancient gold coins from the Earlier Islamic Period 7th-9th centuries CE, found at a dig in Yavne, central Israel, December 2019. (Liat Nadav-Ziv/Israel Antiquities Authority)
December 29, 2019, 7:32 pm
Ancient ‘piggy bank’ of gold coins uncovered at dig in central Israel
Archaeologists find seven pieces hidden inside juglet among remains of large 7th century CE industrial site at Yavne, assess hoard was potter’s savings
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative: Tourists gather at the Pompeii ancient site near the Villa of Mysteries on the occasion of its presentation to journalists in Pompeii, Italy, Friday, March 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
December 28, 2019, 5:55 pm
Could a Jewish author have been first to record destruction of ancient Pompeii?
The Sibylline Oracles, likely written by a Jew post-Vesuvius eruption, ostensibly prophecy the city’s devastation as divine retribution for sacking of Second Temple 9 years prior
By Julie Masis
A reconstruction of what an ancient Denisovan female head may have looked like according to researchers from the Hebrew University, presented during a press conference at the Hebrew university on September 19, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 20, 2019, 11:59 am
Israeli reconstruction of ancient human face wins people’s pick of 2019 research
Science Magazine readers overwhelmingly vote in favor of Hebrew University scientists Liran Carmel and David Gokhman’s depiction of a Denisovan teenager, cousin of modern humans
By TOI staff
Salvage excavations at Tel Beit Shemesh, March 17, 2019. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
December 19, 2019, 10:04 pm
Stone slab unearthed near Jerusalem suggests connection to Ark of the Covenant
Archaeologists said to find rock table in 3,100-year-old temple in Beit Shemesh that echoes Biblical description of ark’s resting place
By TOI staff
Professor Russell Ciochon holds a cast of a Homo erectus skull at his lab in Iowa City, 2019. (Tim Schoon/University of Iowa via AP)
December 19, 2019, 10:40 am
Homo erectus may have been wiped out by climate change, scientists say
Researchers date youngest known remains of ancestor of our species; fresh estimate puts them at 108,000 to 117,000 years old; may have died when woodland became rain forest
By Malcolm Ritter
Photographs of finds from the Tel Hreiz settlement. (a-b) exposure of stone-built features in shallow water. (c) wooden posts dug into the seabed. (d) bifacial flint adze. (e) in situ stone bowl made of sandstone. (f) in situ basalt grounding stone (scale = 20cm); (g) burial 1. (h) suspected stone built cist grave - view from the east (scale = 20cm). (i) in situ antler of Mesopotamian fallow deer, Dama dama mesopotamica. (All photographs by E. Galili with the exception of Fig 3G by V. Eshed)
December 18, 2019, 9:27 pm
7,000-year-old seawall, built to block rising sea levels, found off Haifa coast
With discovery of world’s oldest known breakwater, archaeological record shows how Neolithic villages tried – sometimes in vain – to protect their homes from melting glaciers
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
In this undated photo provided by the Greek Culture Ministry on, December 17, 2019, a golden pendant of the Egyptian goddess Hathor is seen that was found in a 3,500-year-old tomb discovered near the southwestern Greek town of Pylos. (Greek Culture Ministry via AP)
December 18, 2019, 5:54 pm
Archaeologists in Greece find 3,500-year-old royal tombs
Ministry says dome-shaped roofs of graves near Bronze Age palace of Pylos collapsed during antiquity, and chambers were filled with rubble, preventing ravaging by grave robbers
By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS
In this December 11, 2019, photo released by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, archaeology workers clean a small pink granite statue of Ramses II, near the ancient pyramids of Giza, Egypt. (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities via AP)
December 17, 2019, 5:00 pm
Rare statues of Pharaoh Ramses II, mini sphinx unveiled by Egypt
Pink granite casting of famous ruler associated with Exodus story found on property of man arrested for illegal digging, is called ‘one of the rarest archaeological discoveries’
By Isabel Debre
IAA archaeologist Dr. Tali Erickson-Gini (right) examines a marble tray from the altar area of the Byzantine church near Ashkelon. (Anat Rasiuk, Israel Antiquities Authority)
December 16, 2019, 3:12 pm
Factory for Romans’ favorite funky fish sauce discovered near Ashkelon
Although a staple of the Roman Empire, very few garum production sites or cetariae have been found in the Eastern Mediterranean
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Liran Carmel of the Hebrew University reveals a 3D printed model of the face of prehistoric human species Denisovan during a press conference at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on September 19, 2019. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
December 8, 2019, 3:18 pm
Israeli reconstruction of ancient human face finalist for ‘Breakthrough of Year’
Hebrew University researchers’ genetic analysis of Denisovans, cousins to Neanderthals, one of four ‘people’s choice’ finalists for recognition by prestigious Science magazine
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and TOI staff
Close-up of a 12,000-year-old human burial embedded in the white material found in the Ein Gev cave. (courtesy)
December 6, 2019, 9:33 am
12,000-year-old Galilee artifacts reset plaster production clock by 2 millennia
Scientific study of plaster used in cemetery near Ein Gev indicates community must have worked together to bury their deceased, shedding new light on ritual and mass production
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Load More
Join us!
A message from the Editor of Times of Israel
David Horovitz

For as little as $6 a month, you can help support our independent journalism — and enjoy an ADS-FREE experience, as well as special benefits and status as a Times of Israel Community member!

Read more

The Times of Israel covers one of the most complicated, and contentious, parts of the world. Determined to keep readers fully informed and enable them to form and flesh out their own opinions, The Times of Israel has gradually established itself as the leading source of independent and fair-minded journalism on Israel, the region and the Jewish world.

We've achieved this by investing ever-greater resources in our journalism while keeping all of the content on our site free.

Unlike many other news sites, we have not put up a paywall. But we would like to invite readers who can afford to do so, and for whom The Times of Israel has become important, to help support our journalism by joining The Times of Israel Community.

So join now - and for as little as $6 a month you can help support our quality journalism while enjoying The Times of Israel website ADS FREE on desktop and mobile, as well as special benefits and status as a Times of Israel Community member.

* The ADS-FREE experience will still show sponsored content. It will become available on the TOI smartphone app in the near future.

Join the times of israel community Join our community Already a member? Sign in to stop seeing this