Israel Archive
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Erez Avrahamov, a 45-year-old inhabitant of Peduel, made an incredible discovery while hiking in the Tabor Stream Nature Reserve located in Lower Galilee.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed the remains of the military camp of Legio VI Ferrata, along with buildings and roads. Legionary inscription: "VEXILLA
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists unearthed traces of a thriving ancient marketplace during an excavation led by the Israel Antiquities Authority in 2014. The fair at Khan al-Tujjar.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study scientifically corroborates an event described in the Second Book of Kings – the conquest of the Philistine city of Gath
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New dating analysis of existing human remains found worldwide has raised questions about some of our current histories of human evolution. The existence
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Located on Mount Carmel in northern Israel, the prehistoric Kebara Cave is a tremendous paleoanthropological and archaeological site. Evidence shows that the cave
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Cave of Letters in the Judean Desert, Israel, was discovered many years ago by Bedouin of the Ta`amireh tribe. When the cave
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have found a 2,300-year-old tomb of a Greek courtesan (hetaira – in Ancient Greek) in a burial cave in Jerusalem. The cremated
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeological excavations have revealed large Roman latrines located in Bet Shean, Israel. These latrines are the largest in the country, with 60 wooden
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Back in February 2016, two divers stumbled upon the remains of a Roman shipwreck near Caesarea Maritima, Israel. A powerful storm had swept
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists report having discovered four incredibly well-preserved Roman swords in the Judean Desert. This very rare find was made in a small hidden
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists are trying to solve an ancient Jerusalem mystery. What was the function of the Channel Installation discovered in the City of David
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have attempted for about 150 years to decipher the secret of how the ancient city's huge water system brought water to Jerusalem
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It does not often happen that archaeologists can discover massive ancient structures and huge, intact, vaulted passageways you can just walk through. Once
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An ancient 5,500-year-old gate—the earliest known in the Land of Israel—was discovered recently at Tell Erani, near the Kiryat Gat Industrial Zone. The
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A luxurious artifact carved out ivory dating from the time of the Kingdom of Judah period (9th–8th centuries BCE) was uncovered during an
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many ancient cultures used so-called 'magical mirrors' to ward off evil forces. The belief in the power of the Evil Eye goes thousands
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Evidence of the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD is currently being exposed in the City of David, Jerusalem Walls National
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A rare 2,500-year-old marble disc, designed to protect ancient ships and ward off the evil eye, was discovered by a lifeguard diving at
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Medieval sword was found in the sea off the Carmel coast, and it probably fell into the water during a naval battle
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A large, complex karst cave known as the Te’omim Cave located in the Jerusalem Hills has been excavated since 2009 by a team
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have uncovered a spectacular mosaic panel in the late Roman (ca. 400 C.E.) synagogue at Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village in Israel's
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This fragment of a fine marble statuette of Heracles, about half a meter high, that was discovered a few years ago at Horbat
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - About 40 years ago, an ancient tablet was found on Mount Ebal, close to the city of Nablus and roughly 50 kilometers north
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An enormous, rare cargo of 1,800-year-old marble artifacts, borne in a merchant ship that was shipwrecked in a storm, was uncovered in the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Commercial production of luxury “Gaza wine” was long assumed to be the economic basis of Late Antique settlement in the Negev Desert. Scientists
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In a new study published in Hebrew University’s Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology, Dr. Daniel Vainstub deciphered a partially preserved inscription that was found on
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An ancient mosaic floor adorned with colorful floral designs has been re-uncovered after 40 years, along the Israel National Trail. The mosaic floor
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While visiting the Tel Lachish National Park in south-central Israel, a hiker and his friend found a 2,500-year-old pottery shard, known as an
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists know that people have practiced cranial trephination, a medical procedure that involves cutting a hole in the skull, for thousands of years.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A unique bead made from pure gold and dated to at least 1,600 years ago was uncovered in the City of David, not
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered elements of the city's fortifications and an intriguing carved hand imprint as they
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists say they have uncovered the first evidence of an unknown ancient 'Silk Road' in Israel. Scientists say they have discovered an unknown
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Eight over-4,000-year-old, ostrich eggs were uncovered near an ancient fire pit in the Nitzana sand dunes in the Negev, in the south of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The skeleton of a 1500-year-old Byzantine monk, chained in iron rings, was uncovered in a recent excavation near Jerusalem in 2017. No doubt,
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