Archaeology

As part of Nature Defense Forces initiatives, paratrooper recruits and commanders help excavate a structure dating back to the time of King Hezekiah in the eighth century BCE.

Archaeologists and microbiologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority and four Israeli universities team up to study yeast colonies found in microscopic pores in pottery fragments. "It opens up a whole new field of the possibility that perhaps other microorganisms survived as well," opening a portal into tasting cultures of the past, says Aren Maeir of Bar-Ilan University.

Find marks first evidence of 2,000-year-old Jewish settlement, as the site appears to contain underground hidden passageways used by Jewish rebels around the first century C.E., says Israel Antiquities Authority.

A large Hasmonean-era Jewish agricultural village was uncovered by archaeologists in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sharafat, with a major, multigenerational...

A fragment of a clay jar decorated with a human face dating back to the Persian era (fourth to fifth...

Haluza was once part of the Nabataean Incense Route and has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. In a Judeo-Arabic translation of the Pentateuch by Saadia Gaon, Haluza is associated with the biblical town of Gerar.

Egypt says archaeologists have uncovered an ancient workshop used to build and repair ships that dates back to the Ptolemaic...

The scrolls, a collection of manuscripts, some more than 2,000 years old, were first found in 1947 by local Bedouin in the area of Qumran, about 20 km (12 miles) east of Jerusalem.

The limestone mask was created using stone tools and mimics the features of a human face. The edges of the mask have four holes, which might have been used to tie it onto a person's face or a post.

The 3,000-year-old weight, dated from the 10th century BCE to 586 BCE, was discovered in an archaeological dig at the foot of Robinson's Arch at the Western Wall.