The Israel Antiquities Authority has uncovered an impressive Second Temple edifice in the City of David in Jerusalem, probably belonging to the family of Queen Helena of Adiabene.

Rare 2,500-year-old marble discus that was meant to protect ancient ships from the evil eye was found in the sea and turned over to the Israel Antiquities Authority. To date, only four such ...

Israel Antiquities Authority excavations in Tiberias exposed a Byzantine church paved with mosaics and dedicatory inscriptions, one of which reads: "Our Lord (Jesus), protect the soul of yo ...

Archeologists have discovered ancient Jerusalem's main drainage channel, which according to Josephus Flavius was used by Jerusalem residents to hide from Roman wrath at the time of the Grea ...

The Tomb of Herod the Great, king of Judea from 37 to 4 BCE, has been discovered at Herodium by Prof. Ehud Netzer of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Archaeology. Herod is r ...