Students Find 1,600 Year Old Gold Coin in the Galilee
Earlier this year, four ninth-grade boys from the Haemeq Hamaaravi High School in Kibbutz Yifat located in Israel’s Jezreel Valley were out enjoying a glorious spring day by the Zippori Stream in the…
Temple Period Ritual Purity "Voucher" Discovered in Jerusalem
Layers of soil covering the foundations of the Western Wall, c. 15 meters north of the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount, were excavated beneath Robinson's Arch in archaeological excavations of…
Finding the Mountain of Moses: The Real Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia
A recently released documentary, Finding the Mountain of Moses: The Real Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia, has gone viral online, vividly proposing some scholars’ theories that the 8,460 foot mountain…
1500 Year Old Church Discovered in Ramat Beit Shemesh
A 1,500-year-old byzantine-era church with spectacular multicolored mosaic floors with flower, winged eagle, and leaf patterns glistening in the sunshine and hundreds of lamps was discovered by the…
Rare Coin from the Bar Kokhba Revolt Discovered North of the City of David
Archaeological excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the William Davidson Archaeological Park and funded by the Ir David Foundation unearthed an ancient bronze coin bearing the…
A bronze, Greek warrior helmet - decorated with the imprints of a golden leaf, snakes, lions, and a peacock's tail - was discovered in the waters of Haifa Bay. According to archaeologists and…