Iron Age cargoes from Dor reveal how ancient Mediterranean trade evolved alongside shifting empires and political power. New ...

As all these discoveries show, the land’s buried secrets have the power to transform our understanding of history, faith, and the human experience. Few places on Earth carry as much weight of history ...

A 1,500-year-old synagogue was recently uncovered in northern Israel — a discovery that sheds light on the enduring Jewish presence in the region that also gave rise to early Christianity. The ...

Medieval Christians drawing boundaries around ancient Israelite tribes on Holy Land maps had no idea they were influencing how later mapmakers would depict political power. Those red ink lines, meant ...

A new archaeological dig at the ancient site of Sebastia in the West Bank was inaugurated on Monday in the presence of several government officials. Sebastia – known in Hebrew by its biblical name, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 4,000-year-old wick was discovered in its entirety in an Israel Antiquities Authority excavation near Yehud. (photo credit: EMIL ...

An ancient historical site stretching to the time of the Bible is at the center of a new battle for land in the occupied West Bank. Israel is seizing the area to turn it into a tourist site aimed at ...

Archaeologists and students recently discovered a treasure trove consisting of 160 ancient coins during an excavation in Israel. The discovery, which was announced by the University of Haifa on Dec.

A rare collection of ancient coins was discovered last week by Israeli researchers, who called the find an "archaeological Hanukkah miracle." The coins are more than 2,000 years old and believed to ...

Israeli authorities are encroaching on the ancient site of Sebastia in the West Bank to create a tourist attraction aimed at settlers, raising worries of the displacement of Palestinians. An ancient ...