A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have discovered a 1,700-year-old oil lamp decorated with rare Jewish artwork, including a unique menorah — a surprise given that the Roman Empire had tried to ...

A ‘unique’ collection of ‘pearl caves’ containing archaeological artefacts has been found in an ancient tunnel. The pearls ...

Archaeometry 2024) Newsweek reports that the team found the cave pearls while investigating the Jwoeizeh spring tunnel in the Jerusalem hills ... an intact oil lamp, thought to date from the ...

Another series of steps takes us down into a lamp-lit grotto ... Aramaic words for oil press. Today many pilgrims come to this grove of olive trees outside the walls of Jerusalem to remember ...

Earlier in December, an unusual oil lamp with 1,700-year-old soot marks was found near the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Israeli officials also announced that a 12-year-old Israeli girl discovered ...

The story goes that in 164 BCE, after reclaiming the Second Temple in Jerusalem from the Seleucid Empire, the Maccabees found there was only a small flask of pure olive oil with which they could ...

On Thursday, laws passed by Israel in October come into effect banning the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, known as UNRWA, ...

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Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion will discuss the challenges involved in governing Israel's diverse capital city Friday at Palm Beach Synagogue. Lion, who was first elected in 2018 and won a second term ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — In the Shuafat refugee camp, a hardscrabble district in east Jerusalem surrounded by a concrete wall, cars inched their way toward an Israeli checkpoint. Intense security makes ...