Archaeology

Scan reveals new details about 18th Dynasty king Amenhotep I, who ruled Egypt from about 1,525-1,504 BCE.

Seemingly innocent picnic revealed to be an antiquities robbery with five suspects from the Negev arrested.

"The ships were probably anchored nearby and were wrecked by a storm," according to Jacob Sharvit and Dror Planer of the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Marine Archaeology Unit.

Team of Israeli and US researchers identify evidence of beer consumption in cereal grains at Tel Tsaf, a site that dates back over seven millennia.

Galilean community, known in Christian writings as birthplace of Mary Magdalene, was a thriving Jewish town in the Second Temple era.

Clay tablet inscribed in cuneiform with the Epic of Gilgamesh was discovered in 1853 and was stolen from an Iraqi museum during the 1991 Gulf War.

Excavation unearths cups made of chalkstone, a material approved for Jewish rites, which point to the presence there of the exiled assembly.

While such lamps are common finds in excavations, it is "truly exciting" to dig up a Hasmonean-era artifact just before Hanukkah, archaeologists say.

Sling stone, inscribed in Greek, dates back to second century BCE, when Hasmoneans were fighting Diodotus Tryphon.