A Pile of 425 Coins of Pure Gold from 1,100 Years Ago was discovered in Central Israel
A person who lived 1,100 years ago, deliberately buried a clay jar in the ground, containing 425 gold coins – 24 carats. The pile of impressive and rare coins from the Abbasid period (end of the 9th century) More...
A 1,400 Year Old Coin Hoard was Discovered in Israeli Excavations
A cache of nine bronze coins from the end of the Byzantine period (seventh century CE) was discovered in salvage excavations that the Israel Antiquities Authority conducted as part of widening More...
12th Cave of Dead Sea Scrolls from the Second Temple period Discovered
12th Dead Sea Scrolls cave discovered in Israel In a surprising discovery Israeli researchers have revealed a new cave on the cliffs west of Qumran, that they say once held Dead Sea Scrolls. With the discovery More...
Surprise: Engravings Menorah and a Cross from Second Temple period Discovered During Hanukkah and Christmas Holidays
An ancient engravings of a seven-branched menorah and a cross were discovered on the walls of the cistern, incised in chalk bedrock, this weekend by hikers exploring a water cistern in the Judean Shephelah. Last More...
Computer Scientists Solve Mystery Of The Ein Gedi Scroll By ‘Virtual Unwrapping’
When in 1970, archaeologists excavating a site near the Dead Sea in Israel of an ancient synagogue, they dug up a 1, 500-year-old cylindrical lump of charcoal that looked like the remains of a scroll. The More...
Destruction of both Temples supported by archaeological findings
For nearly two thousand years, Jews have mourned the destruction of the Temples. They have traditionally relied on the account of the First Temple’s destruction as told in the Bible and the external More...
Ancient synagogue discovered in Galilee
A synagogue dating back to the end of the Second Temple Era was discovered on the Tel Recheš Peak in the Galilee last week in a rare and unique archaeological find. Last Tuesday, an excavation team discovered, More...
3000-years-old bones at Philistine cemetery in Israel shed new light on Goliath’s people
A huge Philistine cemetery some 3000-years-old has been found in southern Israel, in the Mediterranean seaport of Ashkelon. For the first time the undisturbed graves for more then 150 individual of More...
A Rare Cache of Silver Coins Dating to the Hasmonean Period was Discovered in Modi‘in
The Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) revealed on Tuesday that it unearthed a hoard of silver coins from the Hasmonean period (126 BCE) back in April, during ongoing excavations near Modi’in More...
First Textiles From King David Era Discovered at Timna Copper Mines
A team of archaeologists, led by Tel Aviv University’s Dr. Erez Ben-Yosef, has discovered over 100 pieces of cloths dating to the 10th century BCE, the era of King David and his son Solomon. The More...