According to a London-based Libyan archaeologist, Libya’s famed archaeological sites, including the glorious and well-preserved ruins of the Roman trading city of Leptis Magna, were unharmed during months of NATO Read more…
News
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Libyan Archaeological Sites Survive NATO Airstrikes
• 11/07/2011
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Met Reopens Galleries of Islamic Art
• 11/03/2011
This week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York reopened 15 galleries showcasing the art and architecture of the Islamic world. The galleries, which have undergone a dramatic renovation Read more…
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UN Cultural Body Grants Membership to Palestine
• 11/01/2011
This week, UNESCO, the top cultural body of the United Nations, granted full membership to the Palestinians, a move that gives the Palestinian Authority (PA) the right to nominate ancient Read more…
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Dead Sea Scrolls Take Manhattan
• 10/31/2011
For the next six months, visitors to New York’s Times Square will be able to view a rare collection of 20 Dead Sea Scrolls, together with hundreds of other Biblical-era Read more…
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Miniature Byzantine Prayer Box Found Near City of David
• 10/27/2011
Archaeologists excavating near the Givati parking lot area in Jerusalem’s City of David have found a rare miniature prayer box of a Byzantine pilgrim to the Holy City. Measuring less Read more…
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Israel’s National Library Displays Early Islamic Texts
• 10/26/2011
Starting this week, visitors to Israel’s National Library will be able to view rare Islamic manuscripts from the library’s collection, including two early Qurans from the ninth century C.E., just Read more…
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New Location Proposed for Jerusalem’s King’s Garden
• 10/25/2011
A new study of ancient Jerusalem’s topography suggests that the Biblical “King’s Garden” (Nehemiah 3:15) is not to be found near the lower end of the City of David as Read more…
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Preserving the Tree of Life Mosaic from Jericho
• 10/24/2011
In order to preserve the stunning “tree of life” mosaic covering the floor of an eighth-century C.E. Jericho palace, architects and heritage officials are building a unique shelter at the Read more…
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Antioch Dig Reveals Turkey’s Largest Ancient Mosaic
• 10/20/2011
Excavations conducted during the building of a new hotel near the southern Turkish city of Antakya (ancient Antioch) have uncovered a nearly 10,000-square-foot mosaic carpet, the largest ever found in Read more…
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Scholars Piece Together Cairo Genizah
• 10/19/2011
Scholars at Tel Aviv University are using digital technologies to piece together more than 350,000 fragments of the famous Cairo Geniza, a collection of ancient and medieval Jewish writings discovered Read more…
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New 3D Imaging Looks Inside Ancient Artifacts
• 10/18/2011
Using the latest in neutron imaging technology, researchers are now able to “look inside” artifacts to uncover new information about their manufacture, construction and use. Neutron imaging, which produces something Read more…
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Ancient Jewish Mikvah Found Outside Jerusalem
• 10/13/2011
Archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have discovered the remains of a Jewish ritual bath (mikvah) used during the Second Temple period (first century B.C.E.–first century C.E.) at a Read more…
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Eilat Mazar at Odds with IAA, Elad
• 10/12/2011
Eilat Mazar, whose excavations in the City of David have revealed important insights into Jerusalem’s Biblical past, claims ongoing excavations at the site are being carried out “without any commitment Read more…
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German Museum Puts Amarna Letters Online
• 10/11/2011
Berlin’s Vorderasiatisches Museum, which houses more than 200 of the famed Amarna letters, has made high-resolution images of the ancient diplomatic correspondences available online. The 14th-century B.C.E. archive consists primarily Read more…
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Göbekli “Temple” May Have Also Been a House
• 10/10/2011
According to University of Toronto archaeologist Ted Banning, the 10,000-year-old Göbekli “temple” discovered in southeastern Turkey may in fact have been used primarily as a large communal house. The early Read more…
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Latest Archaeological Finds in Jerusalem Reveal Bronze Age Cemetery
• 10/06/2011
According to an article in the Israeli antiquities journal Qadmoniot, recent salvage excavations around the Holyland Hill housing development in Jerusalem have revealed one of the city’s oldest cemeteries. Excavations Read more…
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BBC Says Yes to BCE
• 10/05/2011
Last week, the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) announced that the date references B.C.E. (Before Common Era) and C.E. (Common Era) would be used in all television and radio programming instead Read more…
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World Rushes to View Dead Sea Scrolls Online
• 10/04/2011
In the week since the Israel Museum and Google began posting high-resolution images of the Dead Sea Scrolls online, more than a million people from across the world have stopped Read more…
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Ashkelon Final Reports Available Online
• 10/03/2011
The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon announced last week that the first two volumes of the ongoing excavation’s final reports, Ashkelon 1 and Ashkelon 2, are now freely available for Read more…
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Israel Returns Early Bronze Age Artifacts to Jordan
• 09/28/2011
According to Jordan’s Department of Antiquities, Israel has returned more than 600 ancient clay vessels and artifacts that have been in Israel’s possession since the 1967 war. The Early Bronze Read more…
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Google, Israel Museum Put Dead Sea Scrolls Online
• 09/27/2011
This week, the Israel Museum, in collaboration with Google, launched a new Web site that allows visitors to view and search high-resolution images of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Read more…
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Original Maimonides Manuscript Goes Digital
• 09/26/2011
The Bodleian Library at Oxford University has digitized an 800-year-old copy of the Mishneh Torah, an authoritative guide to Jewish law written by the medieval Jewish scholar Maimonides in the Read more…
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Remarkable Wall Paintings Discovered at Catalhoyuk
• 09/22/2011
Archaeologists excavating the important Neolithic site of Catalhoyuk in central Turkey’s Konya Plain have uncovered an elaborate 9,000-year-old wall painting depicting an enigmatic arrangement of brightly-colored geometric shapes. Read more…
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Another Egyptian Antiquities Chief Resigns
• 09/21/2011
In the face of growing and increasingly violent demonstrations by antiquities department employees, Mohammad Abdel Fatah, the recently-named secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), resigned from his Read more…
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Cave Found at Bottom of Gezer Water Tunnel
• 09/20/2011
Archaeologists excavating the ancient Canaanite water tunnel at Gezer have uncovered a large natural cave near the bottom of the 150-foot-long rock-hewn tunnel, a cave that may ultimately prove to Read more…
