Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prof. Gabriel (Gabi) Barkay (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST) Israeli archaeologist Prof. Gabriel Barkay, who ...

The Israel Antiquities Authority has launched a new database holding over three million historically significant records. The Israel Antiquities Authority launched the Israel National Archaeological ...

Few places on Earth carry as much weight of history as Israel. Its soil has been turned over for millennia – by armies, pilgrims, shepherds, and, more recently, by archaeologists. Since the modern ...

Tom Levy’s career has spanned 40 years in the deserts of the Holy Land in Israel and Jordan, and is now focused on the eastern Mediterranean.

Archaeologists have finished uncovering the longest continuous remains of an ancient wall that encircled Jerusalem, including possible evidence of a 2,100-year-old ceasefire between warring kingdoms.

JERUSALEM -- Underneath the homes and ragged streets of the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan lie the remnants of a Jewish past: coins, seals, a water tunnel hewn by a Judean king 2,700 years ago, a ...

JERUSALEM — Archaeologists have finished uncovering the longest continuous remains of an ancient wall that encircled Jerusalem, including possible evidence of a 2,100-year-old ceasefire between ...