Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...
Though ambitious and engaging, the New York institution’s reorganized collections galleries struggle to offer a coherent ...
After Holy City was razed in 135 CE, an edict seemed designed to prevent a Jewish return. The discovery of an ancient ...
Cast almost entirely of lead, the pendant is decorated on both sides with an identical image of a menorah framed within a ...
Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...
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Archaeologists finished excavating foundations of the ancient wall that surrounded Jerusalem when the story of Hanukkah took ...
Archaeologists finished excavating foundations of the ancient wall that surrounded Jerusalem when the story of Hanukkah took ...
The Jerusalem Regional Archaeologist for the Israel Antiquities Authority, Dr. Amit Re’im, walks in a section of an excavation site where, according to the ...
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 ...
An exhibition reckons with the revived legacy of an immigrant artist who created ornate illuminations and scathing ...