Authorities in Israel recently conducted a sting operation against antiquities thieves — and uncovered a 2,000-year-old workshop that once supplied pilgrims traveling to Jerusalem. The Israel ...

The workshop was discovered at the Ras Tamim archaeological site on the eastern slope of Mount Scopus.

The ancient workshop, located on the slopes of Mount Scopus, was found last month during an undercover surveillance operation ...

New tours of the Rockefeller Museum showcase artifacts ranging from First Temple-period jewelry to Egyptian pharaohs. The ...

On a beautiful autumn day, a group of visitors strolled in the courtyard of the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum in East Jerusalem, admiring its elegant layout, featuring fountains and colonnades in ...

For the first time in 2,000 years, visitors can walk the ancient Pilgrims’ Road — a historic path dating back to the time of Jesus. Known to archaeologists as the stepped street, Pilgrims’ Road is a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prof. Gabriel (Gabi) Barkay (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST) Israeli archaeologist Prof. Gabriel Barkay, who ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Archaeologists have uncovered the longest continuous remains of ancient Jerusalem’s Hasmonean walls, a rare find ...

Archaeologists have finished uncovering the longest continuous remains of an ancient wall that encircled Jerusalem, including possible evidence of a 2,100-year-old ceasefire between warring kingdoms.

The entire area of the ancient city of Samaria north of Nablus has been expropriated and separated from the nearby Palestinian village in the name of promoting only the Jewish period of its history. M ...