NGO Regavim was working on infrastructure projects near the Hermesh settlement when representatives discovered that a Palestinian family had turned an ancient cave into a private residence.
The coffins date back to 200-300 CE, and bear identical decorations of garlands and discs, suggesting they might have belonged to a husband and wife.
Joint team of Egyptian and American archaeologists digging at necropolis some 280 miles south of Cairo dig up what could be the world's oldest brewery.
"The coin discovered is one of the municipal coins minted in the city of Geva," explains lecturer in classical archaeology at Bar-Ilan University Dr. Avner Ecker.
While ancient olive pits recovered from the Hishuley Carmel site off the coast of Haifa bear similarities to wild olives, researchers are not ruling out the possibility that inhabitants might have cultivated olive trees.
Crafted out of gold foil, the tongue-shaped amulet was likely placed in the deceased’s mouth to ensure they’d be able to speak in the afterlife.
Israel Antiquities Authority reports that decade-long conservation project has restored an ancient theater, Herod's royal guest house, and a monumental staircase and arch.
Katia Cytryn-Silverman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem says mosque indicates a tolerance for other faiths by early Islamic leaders.
Archaeologists working in southern Israel find Bronze Age cloth fibers colored with purple dye that was so hard to produce that it sometimes cost more than gold, the first such discovery in Israel or the southern Levant.
More than 50 wooden sarcophagi dating to 16th-11th centuries BCE were found in a burial shaft.
