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By: Nathan Steinmeyer

While on a walk with her family at the site of Azekah in central Israel, three-year-old Ziv Nitzan made a remarkable chance discovery: a nearly […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

What is a pyramid doing in the Judean Desert? While certainly not a pyramid of the type found in Egypt, the pile of stones sitting […]

By: Glenn Corbett

The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced in March, 2021 that explorations in the Judean desert south of Jerusalem revealed scores of new scroll fragments hidden […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Visiting a cave in the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve near the Dead Sea, a group of archaeologists stumbled upon an unexpected and incredible discovery: four […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

While participating in a joint course by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and the Israeli Ministry of Education, a 17-year-old girl made an incredible discovery—a […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

It is not every day you discover a Bronze Age scarab completely by accident. Yet this is exactly what happened to Gilad Stern while he […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Watch an EXCLUSIVE interview with Joe Uziel, head of the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Dead Sea Scrolls Unit, who discusses the recovery of a papyrus that […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) recently announced an incredible find—the discovery of not one but two ancient shipwrecks off the coast of the ancient port […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

An Iron Age Judahite fortress sits on a small hill, surrounded by modern apartment buildings. The 2,700-year-old fortress is located in the French Hill neighborhood […]

By: Benyamin Storchan

The excavations at the Church of the Glorious Martyr—a Byzantine-era memorial church located west of Jerusalem in the Judean Hills—were conducted as a part the […]