A group of top Israeli archaeologists has borrowed tricks of the trade from colleagues in the fields of ecology and biodiversity to analyze around 1,000 first names of Israelites and Judeans recorded ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. THIS SEAL, dated to the First Temple period, features Hebrew writing that reads: ‘Natan-melech the king’s servant,’ which is a ...

Newly founded Arab states like Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and others, rejected any Jewish sovereignty in the ancient Jewish homeland and launched war after war. The Arab leadership also created what ...

The Jewish holiday of Passover (the Hebrew word for Pesach) is based on the story of the Exodus in the Jewish bible. How the ancient Israelites became enslaved in Egypt for 430 years, how Moses ...

The sad fate of statues and the mutilated statues of Hazor / Amnon Ben-Tor -- An archaeologist on Mars / Giorgio Buccellati -- Of pots and paradigms: interpreting the Intermediate Bronze Age in Israel ...

An ancient historical site stretching to the time of the Bible is at the center of a new battle for land in the occupied West Bank. Israel is seizing the area to turn it into a tourist site aimed at ...