These are what archaeologists say are tiny, handcrafted flutes made by ancient humans. They say they’re likely some 12,000 ...

Similar examples of ancient lion artifacts appear to have been used as door knockers. But the newly discovered discs may have ...

Be’er-Sheva is the country’s fourth most populous metropolitan area and is both an ancient city and a new one. It was named in the Bible by Abraham, and in ancient times marked the southern border of ...

It was in the 8th century BCE that the first administrative inscriptions appeared, attesting to the existence of a bureaucratic system—particularly in Israel under the reign of Jeroboam II (ca ...

Israel’s children are brave. The red alert sounds and, still half-dressed, you go down to the shelter at three in the morning. The children go down the dusty, steep steps two at a time. They go down ...

Archaeologists in Caesarea, an ancient port city located on the Mediterranean coast of modern-day Israel, have discovered a 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus depicting a drinking contest between ...

A marble Roman sarcophagus featuring a scene of Dionysus and Heracles locked in a mythological drinking contest was unearthed in Caesarea, Israeli archaeologists announced ahead of a public lecture ...

Jerusalem Post / Archaeology Archaeologists reveal mythological scene on ancient sarcophagus found in Caesarea The sarcophagus was discovered outside the known walls of Caesarea, indicating that ...