An exciting discovery in Jerusalem constituting extraordinary remains of the wall of the city from the time of the Second Temple (second century BCE-70 CE) that was built by the Hasmonean kings and ...

Archaeologists excavating in Jerusalem’s City of David discovered a name associated with two Hasmonean kings carved into a fragment of a stone bowl dating back 2,100 years. Hyrcanus, a Greek name ...

Researchers at the University of Haifa’s Zinman Institute of Archaeology have uncovered a rare hoard of coins belonging to King Alexander Jannaeus, the second ruler of the Hasmonean dynasty, over ...

A buried stretch of fortification that once guarded ancient Jerusalem has reappeared in the unlikeliest of places, beneath a ...

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Archaeologists have discovered the first ruins of a building from the Hasmonean period in Jerusalem, filling a gap in the ancient city's history, the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced. The ...

Researchers at University of Haifa’s Zinman Institute of Archaeology uncovered a rare hoard of coins that belonged to King Alexander Jannaeus, the second king of the Hasmonean dynasty, during a dig ...

New research sheds light on the millennia-old mystery of why Jerusalemites from 2,100 years ago carefully dismantled a large fortification wall — more massive than the current walls of the Old City — ...

The rule of the Hasmonean dynasty extended south to the Negev, new archaeological excavations have found. “The Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus, great-grandson of Matityahu, conquered Gaza and the ...

One of the earliest examples of stoneware made from chalk, a type of limestone, has been found during excavations in the City of David in Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Thursday ...

On Sunday (December 17), the IDF held an official Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony at the Hasmonean Palaces site in the Binyamin region. The ceremony was organized by soldiers from the battalion ...