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Members of the excavation team, including Uzi Leibner (center), in front of the vaulted ritual bath discovered in excavations at the foot of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem (Aubrey Mercado)
September 24, 2026, 1:51 pm
Ancient public mikveh complex, used for festival pilgrimage, uncovered at foot of Temple Mount
Three large ritual baths, built around 10 CE, offer a rare glimpse into the experience of the massive influx of Jewish pilgrims visiting the Second Temple some 2,000 years ago
By Zev Stub
Archaeologist Yiftah Shalev of the Israel Antiquities Authority holding a recently unearthed Ptolemaic coin in Jerusalem's City of David on August 20, 2025. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)
August 20, 2025, 2:23 pm
Rare gold coin depicting Hellenic queen unearthed in Jerusalem dig
Coin is first of its kind to be found outside Egypt, researchers say; discovery challenges prevailing belief that Jerusalem was a poor, marginal town after First Temple razing
By ToI Staff
Textile finds from the Nahal Omer site in the Arava region in southern Israel, prepared for analysis in the laboratory (Israel Silk Road Project/Nofar Shamir)
January 19, 2023, 1:46 pm
First evidence of unknown ancient ‘Israeli Silk Road’ uncovered in Arava trash dump
Results from sifting 1,600-year-old garbage during a first excavation season at Nahal Omer suggest luxury goods from East were in high demand in the 8th century CE, researchers say
By Tobias Siegal
File: A site where a 1,600-year-old mosaic was uncovered during archaeological excavations in Yavne (Assaf Peretz/Israel Antiquities Authority)
December 19, 2022, 6:10 pm
Israel embarks on challenge to find sensor tech to map archaeological sites
Israel Antiquities Authority seeks to deploy remote sensing as a standard tool in the archaeologist’s toolbox to discover ancient treasures
By Sharon Wrobel
A combination of two pictures shows the tunnel discovered underneath Egypt's ancient Taposiris Magna Temple near Alexandria, November 2022 (Egypt's Tourism and Antiquities Ministry)
November 8, 2022, 10:33 pm
Archeologists hope tunnel under Egyptian temple leads to long-lost tomb of Cleopatra
Uncovered tunnel, located more than 13 meters underground, has been described by Egyptian authorities as a ‘geometric miracle’
By Tobias Siegal
Illustrative: Olives being harvested in the Jordan Valley, November 05, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/FLASH90)
June 16, 2022, 6:01 am
Study: World’s first cultivated fruit trees planted 7,000 years ago in Jordan Valley
Analysis of charcoal from Tel Tsaf dig reveals olive and fig tree wood, indicating first examples of orchards in an advanced, wealthy society
By Sue Surkes
Fragment of the rare purple fabric from 1,000 BCE excavated in the Timna Valley. (Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority)
January 28, 2021, 9:42 pm
Ancient cloth with Bible’s purple dye found in Israel, dated to King David’s era
3 scraps from 1,000 BCE, earliest such finds in region, point to Edomite kingdom described in Bible; vibrant and lasting ‘royal’ dye, mark of the elite, comes from murex sea snails
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Workers lift the 3rd-century CE Roman boundary stone at Israel Antiquities Authority excavations at Nafah in the Golan Heights (Assaf Peretz/Israel Antiquities Authority)
October 27, 2020, 11:16 am
Greek inscription links modern Israeli army base to 1,700-year-old Roman village
3rd century border stone discovered in secondary use under a previously unknown 14th century Mamluk roadside inn
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
'Great Royal Visit,' March 8, 1929. L-to-r: P.L.O. Guy (above), A. Murray Dryer, David Rockefeller, Geoffrey Shpton, Mary 'Tod' Clarck, Edward DeLoach, Robert Lamon, Abby Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., James Henry Breasted, Harry Parker, unidentified fez-wearer. (courtesy Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago)
October 7, 2020, 4:58 pm
Digging at Armageddon: Tumultuous saga of doomed search for Solomon’s Lost City
LISTEN: Author Prof. Eric Cline excavates mounds of archives to paint colorful picture of cast of characters at 1920s-1930s Megiddo dig during field of archaeology’s infancy
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Fourth-grade student Shira Sofer pictured with the ninth-century gold coin she found and archaeologist Achia Cohen-Tavor, May 30, 2019. (Nicole Gutman, Karev Program for Educational Involvement)
June 2, 2019, 2:46 pm
Fourth-grader unearths 9th century gold coin during educational dig
‘I saw something sparkling, so I just picked it up,’ says 10-year-old Shira Sofer, one of hundreds of children taking part in regional archaeology program in central Israel
By ToI Staff
Stephen Flurry, president of Herbert W. Armstrong College in Edmon, Oklahoma, and archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar at a reception in Jerusalem's King David Hotel on June 10, 2018. (courtesy)
June 15, 2018, 4:09 am
Why a world premiere of precious biblical artifacts is in quiet Oklahoma
Through August 19, a select few in the middle of America’s vast Bible Belt can see rare First Temple objects — that most may only ever see online
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The Middle East blind mole-rat or Palestine mole-rat, Nannospalax ehrenbergi or Spalax ehrenbergi. (Bassem18, CC-BY-SA, via wikipedia)
June 4, 2018, 9:59 pm
Blind, bucktoothed mole-rats just might be archaeologists’ new best friends
Israeli researchers propose a revolutionary new methodology in the field: Analyzing the mounds of dirt created by the mightily ugly, burrowing Nannospalax ehrenbergi
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A 1951 image of the Hebrew University's Prof. Eleazar Sukenik with one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. (Department of Archaeology, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem - National Library of Israel, Schwadron collection)
April 19, 2018, 7:50 am
ToI asks the experts: What are the most important finds of Israeli archaeology?
From Dead Sea Scrolls to space-age tech, the dramatic history of the ever-developing field is indelibly entwined with that of the nation itself
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Frank Fazekas Jr., right, poses for a photograph with a portrait of his father, Lt. Frank Fazekas, at his home in New Hartford, N.Y., on February 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Nick Lisi)
March 27, 2018, 9:08 am
74 years later, a pilot who crashed in France returns home
Frank Fazekas, whose plane was shot down by Germans in France, was one of nearly 73,000 Americans still missing from World War II
By CARRIE ANTLFINGER and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER
Shoes taken from victims at the Nazi-built death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, some of which are part of a global tour of artifacts from Auschwitz-Birkenau launched in December 2017 (Courtesy of Musealia)
December 9, 2017, 2:18 am
Global tour of Auschwitz relics begins seven-year, 14-city journey
Part of efforts to keep Holocaust memory alive in an uncertain world, a roving exhibition of artifacts from Auschwitz-Birkenau premieres in Madrid
By Matt Lebovic
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