"What would be most dramatic is if in fact the treasures that are described by the Copper Scroll—and perhaps revealed more fully in the Key Scroll—are in fact from the second temple. Finding them would in fact be the most dramatic archeological discovery of all time." (Jerusalem)—After a Bedouin shepherd stumbled across a cave containing […]
SAQQARA, Egypt — Egypt unveiled on Thursday a newly uncovered 4,000-year-old “missing pyramid” and a ceremonial procession road where high priests, their faces obscured by masks, once carried mummified sacred bulls worshipped in the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis. The pyramid was actually a “rediscovery,” said Egypt’s antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass. It is believed to […]
A group of scholars is disputing the positive media coverage given a Jerusalem conference earlier this month on the so-called tomb of Jesus popularized last year by "Titanic" director James Cameron and Jewish investigative journalist and filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici, saying the majority of experts and academics in attendence either rejected the identification of the site […]
An international excavation team of archeologists led by Dr. Steven Collins, an expert on Biblical archeology from US Trinity Southwestern University, have claimed finding new evidence proving that the Biblical sites of Sodom and Gomorrah – two cities cited in Bible as “destroyed by God for their sins”- were located in Jordan’s Tall al-Hammam in […]
{mosimage}A stone seal bearing the name of one of the families who acted as servants in the First Temple and then returned to Jerusalem after being exiled to Babylonia has been uncovered in an archeological excavation in Jerusalem’s City of David, a prominent Israeli archeologist said Wednesday. The 2,500-year-old black stone seal, which has the […]
JERUSALEM — Deep in a 2,000-year-old tunnel system outside Jerusalem, a young woman unearthed a rare oil lamp used in ancient rituals during an archaeological dig. For Abby Krewson, the discovery is especially gratifying: Krewson is a 10th-grader from Philadelphia participating in a "dig for a day" archaeological experience with her family and a Bible […]
Israeli archaeologists say they have stumbled upon a sealed archaeological level and artifacts dating back to the first Jewish temple at a contested site in Jerusalem. The dig is part of a renovation project at Jerusalem’s holiest site for both Muslims and Jews. Jews know the Old City compound as the Temple Mount and Muslims […]
(IsraelNN.com) The Israel Antiquities Authority announced Sunday that it found the site which served as a backdrop for a famous scene in the Great Jewish Rebellion against Rome in the 1st century. The Authority has uncovered a 70 meter long section of Jerusalem’s main drainage duct. It was inside this drainage duct that Jerusalem’s Jewish […]
