A recent study explores Phoenician ritual bathing traditions in Israel, showing how water rituals played a central role in ...

First Temple-era walls, razed in biblical account, found unbreached in Jerusalem Missing section of 8th-7th century BCE fortification puts in question narrative of 2 Kings in which conquering ...

BIBLICAL-ERA treasures looted from Jerusalem's Second Temple in 70 AD may still be kept under lock and key in the Vatican's dungeons, it has been claimed. A scripture expert has now discussed the ...

Israel continues to shed new light on its rich history. In another project, an Iron Age temple complex discovered near Jerusalem is shedding new light on an ancient Biblical city.

An Iron Age temple discovered at Tel Motza, near Jerusalem, calls into question the Biblical claim that Solomon's temple was alone in the ancient Kingdom of Judah. Solomon's Temple — which is ...

An Iron Age temple complex discovered near Jerusalem is shedding new light on an ancient Biblical city. The temple complex, which dates to the late 10th and early ninth centuries B.C., was ...

The discovery of an Iron Age temple near Jerusalem has upended the idea that the ancient Kingdom of Judah, located in what is now southern Israel, had just one temple: the First Temple, also known ...

The biblical claim was made by researchers from Tel Aviv University who found a 3,100-year-old temple near the modern-day town of Beit Shemesh.

AN UNUSUAL slab unearthed in a Bible-era temple found near Jerusalem is being linked to the 'large stone' that the Ark of the Covenant was said to rest on. Archaeologists excavating the 3,100-year ...

A First Temple period weight measure called a 'beka' was unearthed in a City of David excavation in the Davidson Archaeological Park and discovered in the wet sifting project in Jerusalem's Tsurim ...