This is because walls are not always the strongest defenses of a city. There are times when they are absences, space hacked out to the point of being a statement: slack, queue, make an appearance. The ...

Archaeologists say the stepped street served as Jerusalem’s main thoroughfare for pilgrims during the Second Temple period.

The subtitle of Doron Spielman’s When the Stones Speak reveals the dual purposes he had in mind when he wrote the book. It reads: The remarkable discovery of the City of David, and what Israel’s ...

At the end of October 1995, just days before he was assassinated, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin visited the upper part of the village of Silwan in East Jerusalem, accompanied by a large entourage.

The finding provides “direct evidence of official correspondence between the Assyrian Empire and the Kingdom of Judah," according to an excavation expert. As all these discoveries show, the land’s ...

The ancient Temple Mount road in Jerusalem opens after a 13-year excavation, revealing key artifacts from the Second Temple ...

A massive fortification dating back 3,800 years that likely protected the kings of Judah has been uncovered just outside the walled Old City of Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast ancient structure in one of the oldest urban centers on Earth. In Jerusalem’s City of David, researchers revealed the remains of a massive moat—first mentioned ...