Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of an ancient biblical battle, all thanks to a few broken fragments found in a curious location. The artifacts, which mostly consist of Egyptian ...

Archaeologists in the City of David National Park in Israel have discovered a rare stone seal from the first temple period – one of the oldest finds since the start of excavations in the country, ...

To truly understand ancient conflicts, scientists are turning to archaeomagnetism—a method that reads the Earth’s magnetic memory stored in scorched remains. This approach is opening new windows into ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed a 2,700-year-old Assyrian inscription in clay that could shine a light on key events detailed in the Old Testament. “For me as a historian, this is somewhat ...

Ritual artifacts belonging to the Canaanites, an ancient people referenced in the Old Testament, were recently found in Israel — along with a 5,000-year-old winepress. The Israel Antiquities Authority ...

Some 2,600 years ago, soldiers stationed at a modest military outpost on the southern border of the Kingdom of Judah relied on a sophisticated calendar system to track and manage their supplies, ...

One of the ancient world’s most precious dyes, used in the fabrics of the biblical Tabernacle and the priestly garments, has been identified from a textile uncovered in a cave in the Judean Desert, ...

A group of Israeli and international scholars has employed computer-assisted word-frequency analysis to pioneer a new method that may show who wrote the Bible and redacted it some 2,800 years ago.

Our knowledge of ancient literature comes to us through the hands of scribes. The works of Aristotle, Galen and Ptolemy survived only because generations of copyists reproduced them by hand. But ...