Hanukkah, also known as the festival of lights, is an eight-day Jewish festival commemorating the victory of the Maccabees, a ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem recently discovered a massive Hanukkah-era wall from an ancient power struggle between Hasmonean ...

When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star ...

Indeed, any one of their military triumphs against the Syrians could have been considered the “miracle of Chanukah,” but it ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the longest continuous remains of an ancient wall encircling Jerusalem, possibly evidence of a ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a significant part of an ancient Hasmonean wall in Jerusalem, possibly linking it to a 2,100-year-old ceasefire between ancient kingdoms. The wall's deliberate ...

Dozens of ancient quarries have been uncovered beneath modern neighborhoods of Jerusalem, revealing how generations of builders extracted the iconic limestone that still shapes the city’s landscape.

There are texts written with ink — and there are texts that seem carved in light, like those ancient signs which, our sages teach, the Holy One engraved in white fire upon black fire. Tehillim — the ...

Historical evidence showing communication between the Assyrian Empire and the king of Judah has been discovered next to the Western Wall during an Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) excavation in ...

The Tomb of Absalom, also known as the Absalom's Pillar or Absalom's Monument, is a remarkable funerary monument located in the Kidron Valley in Jerusalem, Israel. This ancient structure is ...