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Complete seal bearing the name 'Ahiav ben Menahem' found at Jerusalem' City of David, summer 2017. (Eliyahu Yanai, City of David)
September 4, 2017, 2:12 pm
Jerusalem welcomed Jewish refugees 2,700 years ago, new finds show
A trove of clay imprints from official documents indicates that after the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel, refugees fled to the Kingdom of Judah, where they rose in the ranks
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Dr. Yonatan Adler on-site at the stone quarry and tool production center excavations at Reina in Lower Galilee. (Samuel Magal/IAA)
August 10, 2017, 11:51 am
2,000-year-old stone workshop discovered near where Jesus turned water into wine
Because it was immune to ritual impurity, the use of stoneware was rife among Jews during the Roman era
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Illustrative: An ultra-Orthodox man examines a citron (etrog) in Jerusalem (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 9, 2017, 10:44 pm
As Italy’s citron crop fails, an archaeologist looks to fruit’s 2,500-year history in Israel
After a disastrous frost that looks to wipe out the majority of this year's etrog yield, Chabad Jewry braces for a crisis ahead of the Feast of Tabernacles
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Dueling Bethsaida excavations: (clockwise from top left) Bronze coin from e-Tell, team member at el-Araj, mosaics found at el-Araj, city gate at e-Tell excavation site. (courtesy)
August 7, 2017, 2:20 pm
Sites vie to be seen as Christianity’s ‘lost’ city of Bethsaida
Seeking the location of a myriad of New Testament miracles, excavations in area of important Second Temple-era town uncover conflicting finds
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Biblical characters that Lawrence Mykytiuk claims to have verified. Clockwise, from left: Sargon II; Cuneiform prism describing the restoration of Babylon by Esarhaddon; a relief of King Sennacherib from his palace in Nineveh; Tiglath-pileser III from the palace at Nimrud. (Public domain)
August 4, 2017, 6:29 pm
Researcher gives seal of approval to 53 biblical characters’ existence
Lawrence Mykytiuk looks for ancient personalities who have made an impression -- be it on a signet ring or a monument
By Rich Tenorio
Visitors wait at the entrance of the Flagellation Monastery, off the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem's Old City, for the Archaeology and Multimedia exhibition. (Courtesy of Tamschick Media)
July 31, 2017, 9:37 pm
Travel back in time at this secret cool oasis in Jerusalem’s Old City
The first stage of the 100-year-old Terra Sancta Museum's reboot offers a multi-media tour of the holy city from a Christian perspective
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Burial of individual analyzed in the Canaanite study, from about 1600 BC. (Dr. Claude Doumet-Serhal/Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
July 28, 2017, 4:30 am
The Canaanites weren’t annihilated, they just ‘moved’ to Lebanon
A UK-based study of ancient genomes finds Canaanites form over 90% of modern Lebanese ancestry, a trait they share with ancient Israelites
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The structure in which shattered jugs were found during the summer 2017 Israel Antiquities Authority dig, attesting to the destruction. (Eliyahu Yanai, Courtesy of the City of David Archive)
July 26, 2017, 3:37 pm
Finds in Jerusalem shore up biblical account of Babylonian conquest
On the eve of the Hebrew commemoration of the destruction of the Temples, archaeologists discover remnants of a blaze indicating the city was grander than thought
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
One of the four ritual baths found at the Galilee's Magdala dig site, which are the earliest ever discovered in the country to use ground water. (courtesy)
July 26, 2017, 1:15 pm
New finds suggest Second Temple priests who fled the Romans kept up holy rituals in the Galilee
After seven years of excavations at Magdala, four rare ritual baths and a unique carved stone point to importance of ancient fishing town to priestly class
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Dozens of students participated in the summer 2017 Rosh Ha'ayin dig. (Daniel Weinberger, IAA)
July 20, 2017, 4:35 pm
Israeli high schoolers excavate 2,700-year-old water system
Etchings of human figures, crosses, and depictions of vegetation found on walls of ancient Rosh Ha'ayin reservoir
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A skeleton of an adult from 3,200 years ago, found at Tel Gezer. (Tandy Institute for Archaeology)
July 19, 2017, 11:49 am
Biblical account of Gezer’s destruction gains ground with torched skeleton finds
The Gezer Excavation Project's final season matches religious narrative with other archaeological evidence that could prove biblical connection to site
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The 'smiley pot' was discovered by a team led by Nicolo Marchetti, an archeology professor at the University of Bologna, during excavations in Turkey's Gaziantep province alongside the Syria border. (courtesy)
July 19, 2017, 1:06 am
History’s ‘oldest smile’ found on 4,000-year-old pot in Turkey
Cheerful artifact from 1,700 BCE discovered near border with war-torn Syria, at the site of a famous biblical battle where Lawrence of Arabia once dug
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Dr. Scott Stripling, head of the current excavation at biblical Shiloh, exhibits a find. May 22, 2017. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
July 17, 2017, 2:29 pm
With Bibles and shovels, a search for the biblical tabernacle gathers pace at Shiloh
New excavation by a Christian team uncovers intriguing finds at the site where Bible says the tabernacle and Ark rested for almost 400 years
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A fish swallows an Egyptian soldier in a mosaic scene depicting the splitting of the Red Sea from the Exodus story, from the 5th-century synagogue at Huqoq, in northern Israel. (Jim Haberman/University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
July 7, 2017, 5:22 pm
Earliest mosaic of Jonah and the whale found in Galilee synagogue
Artwork uncovered at Roman-era synagogue in Huqoq also shows building the Tower of Babel and a Greco-Roman calendar
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A scientist collects concrete samples from the Roman era Portus Cosanus pier in Orbetello, Italy (JP Oleson)
July 6, 2017, 2:08 pm
How have Roman structures lasted so long? New research finds concrete answers
Ancient Israeli coastal city of Caesarea composed of surprising mortar recipe, Utah University geologist discovers
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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