In 1867 Captain Charles Warren, who had served as chief of police in London during the Jack the Ripper murders, was recruited by the Palestine Exploration Fund to study the Levant region.
Watch this fascination video to learn more about a tunnel under the Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, nearly half a kilometer long and containing limestone arches, perfectly…
A plastered building, probably a ritual bath ( mikve), dating to the Second Temple period (first century BCE-first century CE) was exposed in an archaeological excavation the Israel Antiquities…
A tiny seal has been uncovered that could be the first archaeological evidence of Samson, the Biblical slayer of Philistines. Archaeologists discovered the ancient artifact while excavating the tell…
Israeli archaeologists excavating the Givati Parking Lot in Jerusalem’s City of David National Park recently unearthed a rare First Temple-era clay seal (“bulla”) and a 2,600-year-old seal with a…