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Eight-year-old Dor Wolynitz finds a 1700-year-old figurine fragment while hiking in the Negev, in a discovery announced by the Israel Antiquities Authority on May 11, 2026. (Akiva Goldenhersh/Israel Antiquities Authority)
May 11, 2026, 12:05 pm
Eight-year-old boy finds 1,700-year-old statuette fragment while hiking in Negev
Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist says the artifact might depict Roman god Jupiter
By Rossella Tercatin
A 2000-year-old ritual bath is unearthed beneath the Western Wall Plaza in a discovery announced on December 29, 2025. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)
December 29, 2025, 5:53 pm
Fire-blackened 2,000-year-old mikveh is a portal into 70 CE Roman conquest of Jerusalem
The newly unsealed Jewish ritual bath, uncovered beneath the Western Wall Plaza, marks the first stratigraphic identification of the burnt layer from the fall of the Second Temple
By Rossella Tercatin
Yanniv David Levy, a researcher and curator in the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Coin Department, holds a bronze coin minted in the fourth year of the Jewish Great Revolt against the Romans (69-70 CE) found during excavations in the Jerusalem Archaeological Garden – Davidson Center in July 2025. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)
July 31, 2025, 11:14 pm
2,000-year-old ‘Redemption of Zion’ coin reveals turmoil before Jerusalem’s destruction
Bronze coin minted in the fourth year of the Jewish Great Revolt against the Romans found by archaeologists excavating next to the Temple Mount
By Rossella Tercatin
Restoration work on the Roman tombs in Ashkelon, in an image released on August 27, 2023. (Emil Aladjem, IAA)
August 28, 2024, 1:42 pm
Unique Roman-era tombs with intricate wall paintings to be open to public in Ashkelon
Two tomb structures, used for generations by wealthy families in the ancient coastal city, were discovered decades ago but only recently restored
By Gavriel Fiske
Visitors tour the interior of the Pantheon's dome in Rome, on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. The structure was built under Roman Emperor Augustus between 27-25 BC to celebrate all gods worshipped in ancient Rome and rebuilt under Emperor Hadrian between 118 and 128 A.D. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
October 4, 2023, 6:16 am
Defying the ages: Scientists try to explain how ancient buildings are still standing
Reverse-engineering pinpoints materials and techniques used by Romans, Mayans and Chinese; the research could help contemporary architecture to endure
By Maddie Burakoff
A bronze oil lamp discovered in Budapest in 2012 (R) which matched one found in Jerusalem's City of David in May 2021 (L). (Ágnes Bakos/Bence Tihanyi; Koby Harati/City of David)
May 9, 2021, 3:05 pm
Matching half of 2,000-year-old lamp found in Jerusalem said located in Budapest
Hungarian archeologist reaches out to Israelis to say he may have found a match for the rare face-shaped piece discovered on road used by Jewish pilgrims on way to 2nd Temple
By Raoul Wootliff
A bronze oil lamp discovered in the foundations of a Roman-Era building in Jerusalem's City of David Pilgrimage Road, May 2021. (Koby Harati/City of David)
May 5, 2021, 2:32 pm
2,000-year-old oil lamp shaped like a grotesque face found in City of David
Archaeologists say the bronze item, unusual because it is only half of a lamp, was put in foundation of Roman-era building on Jerusalem’s famed Pilgrimage Road for good fortune
By Michael Bachner
A 1.4-meter (55-inch) wide sarcophagus and what appears to be an altar, dating back to the 6th Century BCE, are seen in an underground chamber, at the ancient Roman Forum, during an unveiling to media, in Rome, February 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
February 22, 2020, 2:47 pm
Lost shrine to Rome’s founder believed discovered in Roman Forum
Archaeologist in charge of dig site in area identified with city’s founding says the find is not a tomb but ‘very likely… a memorial site’ to Romulus
By Frances D'Emilio
A visitor on a newly-opened section of Jerusalem's Old City ramparts. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
January 25, 2020, 8:22 am
Golgotha to the Six Day War: Stroll through time on a newly opened Old City wall
Jerusalem ramparts, recently opened to the public, provide a vivid overview of the capital’s history, from its Roman and Ottoman conquerors to its modern day residents
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Archaeologist Prof. Jodi Magness at Masada, July 11, 2019. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
October 4, 2019, 1:07 pm
Maybe there was no mass suicide at Masada? Top archaeologist questions a legend
Prof. Jodi Magness busts myths and asks unanswerable questions in new book about Masada — the site of the largest Jewish wholesale self-slaughter that maybe never was
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Taleb Jubran, director of the department of tourism and antiquities in Hebron, points to an ancient burial site from the Roman-era which was discovered during construction of a new road in the southern West Bank village of Idna on August 16, 2018. (AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)
August 16, 2018, 8:45 pm
Ancient Roman-era tombs discovered in West Bank village
Director of Palestinian antiquities department in Hebron says bones, pottery found among the graves carved into stone
By AFP
The newly exposed section of the Lod mosaic. (Niki Davidov, IAA)
July 29, 2018, 9:16 am
While building museum to house stunning Lod mosaic, researchers unearth another
Fresh piece falls into place to the 1,700-year-old puzzle of who was the wealthy — maybe Jewish — owner of a sumptuous Roman villa discovered 20 years ago under a garbage dump
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Trip leader Shuka Revak, 86, fulfills a life-long dream as he reaches Avdat in Israel from Jordan's Petra, February 2018. (courtesy)
March 15, 2018, 2:56 pm
86-year-old guide helps discover section of Incense Route lost for millennia
Traversing 100 kilometers in five days, Shuka Ravek fulfills dream and walks from Petra to Avdat in the footsteps of Nabateans
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Replica of the Spoils of Jerusalem Bas-Relief from the Arch of Titus, digitally reconstructed and fully colorized based on ancient pigments found on this and other Roman sculpture; created by VIZIN: Institute for the Visualization of History and by Neathawk Designs (Courtesy of Yeshiva University Museum)
November 24, 2017, 10:12 pm
Life-size relief replica stars in Arch of Titus show in New York
Massachusetts sign carver uses 3-D scans and and hi-tech machinery to make striking copy of famous ‘Spoils of Jerusalem’ bas-relief
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Nahshon Szanton holding a ballista stone that was apparently catapulted during the siege of the Jerusalem, while standing on an ancient street being excavated. (Shai Halevy/courtesy Israel Antiquities Authority)
May 25, 2017, 9:38 pm
Ancient war for Jerusalem echoes as stones and arrowheads uncovered
New findings on ancient street confirm 1st century historian‘s account of Roman routing of Jewish rebels in 70 CE
By Sue Surkes
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