JERUSALEM (RNS) — Archaeologists from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Antiquities Authority have discovered a remnant of a massive ancient moat in Jerusalem that fortified the city during the ...

Canada and Jerusalem share a profound respect for cultural heritage, evident in the many exchanges between artists, musicians ...

The events in Shushan were never merely about the Jews of Persia. Just a few years before Esther’s miraculous rise, we had ...

Yuval Gadot of the Department of Archeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures ... as the residence of the people of Jerusalem and the Acropolis (the upper city), which was where the palace and ...

For most visitors, the highlight of a City of David visit is Hezekiah's Tunnel. The tunnel was ancient Jerusalem's primary source of water, according to the Bible. Today, you can traverse this ...

A large number of Bar Kochba coins have been found outside of Jerusalem, however. The rebels failed to breach the boundaries of the ancient city of Jerusalem, and the four coins found in the city ...

No ancient city was so desired and feared, so admired and denigrated. But in the Hebrew tradition, Nebuchadrezzar was a tyrant, and Babylon a torment. The king had conquered Jerusalem in the early ...

Atiqot / עתיקות, כרך‎ 110, The Ancient Written Wor(l)d (2023), pp. 229-240 (12 pages) A unique lead seal of the Byzantine Patriarch of Jerusalem, Leontios II (1176–1184/85), was discovered in a ...