Israel archeology

Discovery off Israel’s coast reveals earliest known 2,600-year-old shipment of raw iron

The discovery was made in an ancient shipwreck in the Dor Lagoon near the Carmel Coast, where archaeologists recovered nine pieces of unprocessed iron known as “blooms.”

 The Mediterranean Sea.
Workers and volunteers on an archaeological dig sift through dirt at Alexandrion/Sartaba in the Jordan Valley.

Israel digs up the West Bank – and reignites a battle over history

Israelis families display pieces of pottery found while volunteering at an excavation at Tel Maresha at the Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park on Aug. 6, 2023.

Israeli archaeologists launch project to trace origins of ancient pottery

The dramatic mountaintop site rising 650 meters above the Jordan Valley

Israeli archaeologists uncover remains of dramatic mountaintop royal palace


A biblical story retold

The relic, which is currently on display, is part of the Genesis Apocryphon, which contains a description, in Aramaic, of the lives of Noah, Abraham, Enoch and Lamech.

The Samson family just after making aliya in 1996The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition has attracted millions of visitors over the past half century

Bones never lie

How evolutionary medicine impacts modern medical understandings.

AN ANTHROPOLOGIST at the Dan David Center for Human Evolution and Biohistory Research in the middle of an excavation.

Rare coin from ancient Jewish Bar Kokhba revolt discovered in cave

The coin is believed to have been minted between the third and fourth year of the Bar Kokhba revolt (136-134 CE).

Coins from Bar Kokhba era discovered by acheological teams in the Qibya cave 30 kilometers northwest of Ramallah as part of the "Southern Samaria Survey" project.

Archeological study reveals unique 35,000-year-old culture

The bones were processed to have grooves appearing in a fixed area on the bone. It is reasonable to assume that this was a unique item of the local culture.

Photographs of deer bones found in a cave in the Galilee

Elementary school pupils dig up a piece of Jewish history

“These pieces of the oil lamp that was found are important for us because they are a good representation of quality craftsmanship from that time."

Archeology: pieces of an 1,500-year-old ceramic oil lamp discovered by Israeli students

Coins from destruction of Second Temple found in time for Passover

“A discovery like this—ancient coins bearing the words ‘Freedom’ and ‘Redemption’—found right before the Jewish Festival of Freedom—Passover—begins is incredibly moving.”

Coins discovered in old city cave March 26, 2018

Haifa scientists uncover the bizarre role of Negev’s Byzantine pigeon

‘Dropping by’ to fertilize the soil

Yatir Forest in the northern Negev

Dead Sea Scrolls go to Denver

In addition, 620 artifacts dating from the biblical period to the end of the Bar-Kokhba Revolt will be on display, including a three-ton stone from the Western Wall.

Conserving the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Antiquities Authority laboratories in Jerusalem

Researchers believe they dug up 2,700-year-old seal of doomsday prophet Isaiah

The 2,700-year-old clay relic was found at the foot of the southern wall of Temple Mount.

The 2,700-year-old clay seal impression which potentially belonged to the biblical prophet Isaiah.

Man arrested for looting 150 Byzantine-era coins from archeological sites

Theft of relics is punishable by up to four years in prison.

Stolen coins confiscated by police