Built in 1938, this UNESCO World Heritage Site once protected a thriving pearl fishing and trading town. The fortress ...

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A 2,000-year-old ring that was unearthed 50 years ago near Jerusalem may well have been worn by Pontius Pilate ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 3,000-year-old biblical fortress beneath Jerusalem, revealing a massive moat once thought lost to history.

The Israel Antiquities Authority recently announced this latest discovery, a nearly 20-foot-high “incredible desert fortress” located ... weaponry, and ancient furniture, all remarkably ...

But Ziv is the youngest child known to have discovered an ancient artifact in Israel, said Yoli Schwartz, a spokeswoman for the antiquities authority, who called the find “very exciting.” ...

Huge vats, stained stone tools, and hundreds of shells from sea snails (the dye’s most important ingredient) speak to the incredible labor that took place to produce Tyrian purple for the world’s ...

Soviet repression caused most Georgian Jews to flee, leaving behind a 2,500-year-old history whose memory is beginning to ...

Masada, an ancient fortress, sits on a large rock hilltop ... from the beginning of antisemitism to the establishment of Israel. Visitors view a memorial to those killed in the Holocaust at ...

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In this instance, we learn about how immigration transformed ancient Israel as blue-eyed stepped people came in: Ancient Israel (then called Galilee) belonged to a region known as the southern ...