Prof. Yossi Garfinkel speaks with journalist during a tour at the archaeological site of Khirbet Qeiyafa near Beit Shemesh, Israel, August 29, 2016. According to a study by researchers at the Hebrew ...

The clay sealing (Bulla) of Hiṣilyahu son of Immer, a member of the priestly Immer family, who served in the administration of the Temple treasury. Archaeologists researching dozens of clay sealings ...

More than 2,700 years ago, worshipers at a "holy of holies" shrine in Israel may have gotten high on weed. Researchers discovered burnt cannabis and frankincense at the site, which was located in the ...

In a study published by Reli Avisar in the Levant journal, the author examines the symbol of the palmette and how its meaning ...

Researchers reconstructed the geomagnetic fields recorded in 21 archaeological destruction layers throughout Israel and used the data to develop a reliable new scientific tool for archaeological ...

Archaeological evidence of names holding significance over thousands of years has been uncovered in an interdisciplinary study from multiple Israeli universities, after personal names etched into clay ...

A new study has uncovered hidden social patterns in ancient Hebrew kingdoms by analyzing personal names from archaeological findings. Applying diversity statistics typically used in ecological studies ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a unique stone structure in East Jerusalem, providing evidence of cultic activity and possibly animal sacrifice in the Kingdom of Judah during the First Temple period.

The town of Kiriath-jearim, identified at Deir el-ʿAzar above the village of Abu Ghosh, has come to scholarly attention recently due to the renewed excavations led by I. Finkelstein and T. Römer.

Archaeologists are questioning the Old Testament account of the destruction of King Solomon's Temple after a missing section of the original temple wall was found during a Jerusalem dig. The discovery ...