The site was found to be the resting place of a royal family member of King Herod the Great, as published in the journal ...

The Secret Excavation of Jerusalem A British aristocrat looking for the Ark of the Covenant launched history’s most peculiar archaeological dig—and set off a crisis in the Middle East ...

Findings from that excavation are displayed in the Israel Museum. Among those discoveries was one of the largest theaters in the country, which was built by Herod during the Second Temple period.

Similar examples of ancient lion artifacts appear to have been used as door knockers. But the newly discovered discs may have ...

Israeli excavations were halted only for several months in 1974, after Unesco suspended all aid to Israel. Later that year, the historic Jawahiriya school west of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound ...

Marine excavations offer glimpse into ancient history preserved under the sea While much of Israel’s land has already been dug up and explored, archaeological discoveries underwater are just ...

Archaeologists in Israel recently uncovered a 1,200-year-old estate from the early Islamic era during an excavation in the southern Bedouin town of Rahat.

Palestinian rights activists say the excavations are part of a much broader campaign to strengthen Israel’s claim to east Jerusalem, encourage right-wing Jewish settlers and eventually doom a ...

A stone tool was also uncovered that was believed to be more than 2,000 years old. Israel Antiquities Authority “From a sewage pipe that burst 15 years ago came these excavations that resulted ...

Excavations in Israel are shedding new light on the history of a Biblical site linked to the Ark of the Covenant. Specifically, archaeologists are focusing their attention on the ancient site of ...