Installing an elevator doesn't normally involve a 2,000-year plunge into an ancient city's history. But in Jerusalem, even seemingly simple construction projects can lead to archaeological endeavors.

The first Assyrian inscription discovered in Jerusalem reveals ancient biblical-era correspondence between Assyrian empire ...

A tiny, extremely rare pottery sherd bearing a cuneiform inscription in the Akkadian language from about 2,700 years ago was discovered in an archaeological excavation near the Western Wall of the ...

Woe to you, O Jerusalem—and woe to the historian who writes about your fall to the Romans! The enterprise, undertaken by Guy MacLean Rogers, is woeful because our knowledge of the great Jewish revolt ...

Two weeks ago, an Israeli appeals court overturned a lower court’s position, which had questioned the long-standing ban on non-Muslim prayer on “Temple Mount ...