As all these discoveries show, the land’s buried secrets have the power to transform our understanding of history, faith, and the human experience.

Correction Appended: Feb. 8, 2010 The Jerusalem syndrome is a psychological disorder in which a visit to the holy city triggers delusional and obsessive religious fantasies. In its extreme variety, ...

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 ...

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 institution, a city wall from the Hasmonean ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Archaeologists from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Antiquities Authority have discovered a remnant of a massive ancient moat in Jerusalem that fortified the city during the time ...

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Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. An academic conference devoted to “Archaeology and Site Conservation in Judea and Samaria” (the biblical name for the ...

Eilat Mazar is unafraid to claim archaeological finds of biblical proportions. When the ribbon was cut to dedicate Jerusalem's newest archaeological attraction last summer, Eilat Mazar stood among the ...

A coin minted by Jewish rebels just before the destruction of the Second Temple – an event Jesus predicted in the Gospels – has been unearthed in Jerusalem. The 2,000-year-old artifact was found at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. THIS SEAL, dated to the First Temple period, features Hebrew writing that reads: 'Natan-melech the king's servant,' which is a ...

Prof. Gabriel (Gabi) Barkay, the Israeli archaeologist whose work helped reshape what scholars know about ancient Jerusalem, died on Sunday at 81, according to the Temple Mount Sifting Project, which ...