Hebrew University researchers uncovered 8,000-year-old pottery showing floral patterns built on precise geometric ...

Archaeologists finished excavating the most complete part ever discovered of the foundations of the walls, which surrounded ...

Cast almost entirely of lead, the pendant is decorated on both sides with an identical image of a menorah framed within a ...

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An exhibition reckons with the revived legacy of an immigrant artist who created ornate illuminations and scathing ...

Though ambitious and engaging, the New York institution’s reorganized collections galleries struggle to offer a coherent ...

A sneak peek at some of the fabulous family activities happening in Jerusalem this Hanukkah. Hanukkah is a magical time in ...

A catacomb filled with niches for burying the dead was discovered in 1919 beneath Villa Torlonia, a lavish estate on the outskirts of Rome. Unlike other catacombs in the city, this one was used by ...

Researchers are using a very modern tool to transcribe and read hundreds of thousands of medieval manuscripts from the lost age of Eastern European Jewry.

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

The research lands just as Washington is forcing the art world to examine its culpability in Nazi-looted art. Cranach Digital Archive In 1944, as soldiers herded Hungarian Jews into ghettos and onto ...