Analysis of nearly 500 names from Late Iron Age Judah through Persian Period Yehud reveals some change—but mostly striking ...

Ivory was a luxury item in the ancient biblical world, associated exclusively with royalty and the rich. King Solomon sat on a throne of ivory in Jerusalem. King Ahab had a famous house of ivory in ...

“I don’t believe in carbon-14 dating at all,” said Egypt’s premier Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass on a recent viral Joe Rogan podcast. “And it’s not working in Egypt until today.” The 78-year-old Hawass ...

In February, archaeologists from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (sca) of Egypt announced the completion of a two-year excavation of a 3,000-year-old gold processing complex at the Sukari gold mine ...

Excavations at el-Ahwat in the highlands of ancient Israel have uncovered the earliest evidence of bronze production in the entire southern Levant, with links to Edom’s surge in copper production in ...

Excavators in the City of David have uncovered a massive dam built during the time of Jerusalem’s biblical kings. The dating of the reservoir to about 800 B.C.E., two hundred years after King David ...

In 2006, a fragment of a proto-Aeolic capital was submitted to the Museum of Malaga in Spain. It was found in Cerro Del Villar, an ancient Phoenician colonial settlement in Southern Spain, during ...

According to Dr. Robert Kool, head of the Numismatics Department at the Israel Antiquities Authority, and Dr. Haim Gitler, chief curator of archaeology and curator of numismatics at the Israel Museum, ...