Excavation of a 2,500-year-old burial site revealed tombs of trade caravans from Yemen, Phoenicia and Egypt that traveled through the Land of Israel.

A pair of Dutch metal detectorists uncovered an unusual hoard of Roman and British coins dating back to Biblical times, according to European officials.

A treasure of coins from a Maccabee rebel, evidence of the name "Ahab", a 5-ton stone from the Western Wall, and more.

No one can realistically be expected to know everything about the Palestinian Arab/Israeli conflict, yet there are recurring canards that one should be prepared to address with some level of knowledge ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...

The scroll, found in the Judean desert, has been painstakingly translated from Nabataean, an ancient Arabic language.

Unearthed at Huqoq, the artifact may represent the missing link between 1,300-year-old Merovingian rings and popular medieval ...

Archaeologists unearthed 364 medieval gold and silver coins near a collapsed wall in the ancient village of Huqoq in Galilee, ...

Archaeologists excavating Abel Beth Maacah in northern Israel have discovered a rare Tetrarchic boundary stone from the Roman ...

New research examines artifacts found in 2018 in two vessels next to the synagogue at Huqoq, in an excavation led by Prof.

Nowadays, we probably never stop to think about why money was invented. If you are a cynical person, you won't be surprised to learn the prime motivation was to make a profit for rulers.

No coins were available at this time except for various foreign coins such as the widely traded and trusted Spanish real dollars. The first coinage act was proposed and it passed Congress under ...