
A 2,000-year-old pyramid-stepped structure was recently uncovered in Jerusalem’s City of David. Its exact function is uncertain. Read more…
Jerusalem, the capital of modern (and ancient) Israel, is the epicenter of Biblical archaeology. Almost every time someone digs in the Holy City, some new and exciting clue about the world of ancient Israel or the origins of Judaism and Christianity is revealed.
• 09/10/2015
A 2,000-year-old pyramid-stepped structure was recently uncovered in Jerusalem’s City of David. Its exact function is uncertain. Read more…
• 09/01/2015
A striking cache, including a gold medallion inscribed with a menorah, shofar (ram’s horn) and a Torah scroll, was found at the foot of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Read more…
• 07/28/2015
The Mt. Zion dig in Jerusalem has been excavating a first-century C.E. mansion that may have belonged to aristocrats or a member of the wealthy Jewish priestly families. Read more…
• 10/21/2014
IAA excavations north of Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate have uncovered a stone fragment engraved with an official Latin inscription dedicated to the Roman emperor Hadrian. Read more…
• 09/29/2014
The dazzling Ophel treasure discovered in 2013 is now on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Read more…
• 08/05/2014
Excavations near Jerusalem uncovered a rare hoard of coins dating to the fourth year of the Great Revolt against the Romans (69/70 C.E.). Read more…
• 05/05/2014
Byzantine Jerusalem was Christian Jerusalem—par excellence. The Byzantine era began when the Emperor Constantine—soon to convert to Christianity—became master of Palestine in 324 A.D. It did not end in Jerusalem Read more…
• 01/03/2014
Gershon Galil recently proposed that Jerusalem’s oldest inscription is in Hebrew and it refers to a cheap type of wine. Read more…
• 12/12/2013
In the September/October 2013 issue of BAR, Hershel Shanks reviewed the evidence for the dating of the Jerusalem tunnels, citing recent analysis by Aren Maeir and Jeffrey Chadwick. Maeir and Read more…
• 12/04/2013
Hasmonean era no longer absent from Jerusalem’s archaeological record as archaeologists uncover a large structure in the City of David. Read more…
• 10/31/2013
1,700 years ago, a woman named Kyrilla had vengeance on the mind. A Roman-era curse tablet discovered in a mansion in Jerusalem’s City of David invokes four religious traditionsan attempt Read more…
• 09/30/2013
Want to see students in action on a dig? Check out this lighthearted music video featuring UNC Charlotte’s Levine Scholars on the Mt. Zion excavations. Read more…
• 09/19/2013
A recent press release issued by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte details finds from the Mt. Zion excavations that may shed light on the domestic lives of Jewish Read more…
• 08/26/2013
A web-exclusive discussion by Aren Maeir and Jeffrey Chadwick. The scholars argue that Hezekiah had ample time to construct the tunnel during the revolt against Assyria. Read more…
• 08/21/2013
A ceramic bowl with an inscription that may allude to a Biblical figure was recently uncovered among thousands of First Temple period pottery sherds, clay lamps and figurines near Jerusalem’s Read more…
• 08/06/2013
Excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered part of a massive hospital dating to the Crusader period (1099-1291 C.E.). The structure lies in the heart of the Read more…
• 07/10/2013
Eilat Mazar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has uncovered an inscribed jar fragment from her excavations near the Temple Mount. Dating to the tenth century B.C., the inscription is Read more…
• 07/02/2013
The Roman siege of Jerusalem during the First Jewish Revolt in the first century A.D. forced many of the city’s residents into starvation. For the first time, evidence possibly connected Read more…
• 06/28/2013
In the Roman Republic and Empire, state-sponsored roads were critical to the growth and preservation of the state. Read more…
• 05/08/2013
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced the discovery of a massive quarry from Second Temple period (538 B.C.E–70 C.E.) Jerusalem in the modern Ramat Shlomo district on Wednesday, May 8th. Read more…
• 04/12/2013
Israeli archaeologists recently uncovered a mikveh, or Jewish ritual bath, in Jerusalem’s Qiryat Menachem neighborhood that dates back to the Second Temple period (538 B.C.E–70 C.E.). Read more…
• 01/30/2013
Archaeologist Gabriel Barkay investigates the question—who was buried in the Tomb of Pharaoh’s Daughter? Read more…
• 01/16/2013
The famous Theodotus inscription, which commemorates the building of a first-century B.C.E. synagogue, is one of hundreds of early Jewish writings now being published that document the ancient history of Read more…
• 01/15/2013
The Ophel in Jerusalem sits at the heart of Biblical archaeology. The site’s rich research history stretches back to Charles Warren in the 1860s, and the Ophel continues to yield Read more…
• 12/11/2012
Archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority have uncovered a large, well-constructed agricultural estate in west Jerusalem that dates to the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The remains, which include a wine Read more…