Archaeology

Ancient mikveh's discovery "changes what we knew about the lifestyle of the Jews in the Second Temple period," say excavation directors Abd Elghani Ibrahim and Dr. Walid Atrash.

"The roads are very, very important for development, for Egyptians, for inside Egypt,” says head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. “Know that we take good care of our antiquities sites everywhere in Egypt."

It is unclear who lived in the palace but there is speculation that it could have served royalty or prominent families.

Scientists use micro CT scanning to "unwrap" mummies of animals that were apparently made to act as go-betweens between deities and living people.

Tunnel, which is described in a number of Israeli memoirs about the War of Independence, caved in before it could be used to annihilate the Jews of Safed.  

Archaeologists say the ancient wreck off the Aegean island of Alonnisos gives insight into commerce in the period known as the Golden Age of Athens.

If consensus is reached on the location of an ancient synagogue built beneath the Temple Mount, it could prove that Jews have been praying at the Western Wall for 1,000 years.