Huqoq mosaic, parting of the Red Sea (photo by Jim Haberman, all images courtesy UNC) Animals marching onto Noah’s Ark and the parting of the Red Sea feature in two mosaic floor panels discovered in a ...

A team of Israeli archaeologists has unearthed the remains of a synagogue in the Golan Heights, roughly dating to 1,500 years ago, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and the University of Haifa ...

CAIRO, Egypt — The head of antiquities Thursday unveiled restoration work under way at one of Egypt's most famous synagogues, a project he denied was meant to assuage Jewish anger at the country's ...

The remains of an ancient synagogue were discovered in northern Israel. Excavators from a consortium of American schools and the Israel Antiquities Authority unearthed the mosaic floor of a synagogue ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Avigail Rosenbaum Bracha, field manager of the synagogue area near Mashkof and Tabula Anasta. (photo credit: Courtesy) Excavations ...

What was thought to be an ancient synagogue is actually a church that the Israel Antiquities Authority plans to close to the public next week. The Jerusalem Post (photo credit: The Jerusalem Post) ...

After studying the world’s oldest synagogue paintings for nearly a decade, Jill Joshowitz had accepted that she might never be able to stand before them as they remained locked away in Syria amid its ...

Theft and shelling have damaged a 2,000 year-old synagogue in Damascus, one of the oldest in the world, Syrian government and opposition activist sources said on Monday. Syria’s historic monuments ...

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