This is the first time that the name Eshba'al has appeared on an ancient inscription in the country. Eshba'al Ben Shaul, who ruled over Israel at the same time as David, is known from the B ...

In 539 BCE, after uniting the Persian and Median kingdoms under his rule, King Cyrus subdued the Babylonian Empire. In 538 BCE King Cyrus made a public declaration granting the Jews the rig ...

The lower aqueduct to Jerusalem, which the Hasmonean kings constructed more than 2,000 years ago in order to provide water to Jerusalem, operated intermittently until about one hundred year ...

An archaeological excavation conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in a cave near Tel Halif revealed seals, figurines and amulets in the image of gods sacred to Egyptian culture, in ...

Calling Beit Guvrin a "microcosm of the land of the caves," UNESCO noted that the site "on the crossroads of trade routes to Mesopotamia and Egypt, bears witness to the region's tapestry of ...