NGO challenges Israel’s claims over Sebastia archaeological site
Israel’s investment in ensuring access to historic archaeological sites at the expense of the Palestinians who live there…
Vatican ambassador visits Israel Museum’s archaeology wing
The newly appointed Vatican Ambassador to Israel, Archbishop Giorgio Lingua, visited the Israel Museum’s Archaeology Department this week…
Napoleon’s lost talisman and the 1799 promise of a Jewish homeland
While the cannons of the Ottoman Empire thundered around the walls of Acre on a moonlit night in…
West Bank, Gaza antiquities bill raises international law concerns
The controversial bill seeking to establish a new civilian authority to oversee antiquities and heritage sites within the…
New scan data of Turkish formation is reviving the Noah’s Ark debate
Four meters below the surface, researchers say they are seeing something that has changed the conversation around one…
‘Children Shaped Clay 15,000 Years Ago in Israel’
(Photo credit: Laurent Davin/Institute of Archaeology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Etgar Lefkovits | JNS An Israeli university…
Why two skulls unearthed in B.C. could be harbingers for future archeological woes
Last June, landscapers working on a site in Kamloops, B.C., came upon a troubling discovery — two human…
Bronze Age proto-city discovered on the Kazakh Steppe
Archaeologists have discovered a late Bronze-Age proto-city on the Kazakh Steppe in north-eastern Kazakhstan. Covering roughly 140 hectares…
Submerged port discovery could lead to Cleopatra’s lost tomb
Archaeologists have discovered a submerged ancient port near the ruins of the Taposiris Magna temple complex west of…