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The Ketef Hinnom scrolls, also described as Ketef Hinnom amulets, are the oldest surviving texts currently known from the Hebrew Bible, dated to c. 600 BCE. [2] The text, written in the Paleo-Hebrew script (not the Babylonian square letters of the modern Hebrew alphabet, more familiar to most modern readers), is from the Book of Numbers in the Hebrew Bible, and has been described as "one of ...
Ketef Hinnom The area of Ketef Hinnom (just east of St Andrew's church) shown in a 1940s Survey of Palestine map Ketef Hinnom ( Hebrew : כתף הינום , romanized : ketef hinom , lit. 'Shoulder of Hinnom ') [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is an archaeological site discovered in the 1970s southwest of the Old City of Jerusalem .
The University of Haifa recently announced that 160 ancient coins depicting Alexander Jannaeus were found during an excavation in the Jordan Valley in December.
Bethlehem of Galilee (Hebrew: בֵּית לֶחֶם הַגְּלִילִית, Beit Lehem HaGlilit; lit. "the Galilean Bethlehem") or Bethlehem-in-the-Galilee [2] is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Galilee near Kiryat Tivon , around 10 kilometres north-west of Nazareth and 30 kilometres east of Haifa , it falls under the jurisdiction ...
Located within a closed military area of the Atlit naval base. [56] Chorazin: Korazim [57] Daughters of Jacob Bridge: Gesher Bnot Ya'akov, Jisr Benat Ya'kub [58] Tel Dan: Tell el-Qadi [59] Tel Dan Stele: Ed-Dikke synagogue: Dothan: Tel Dothan [60] En Esur: Ein el-Asawir Ein HaBesor [61] Ein Bokek: Metzad Bokek [62] Ein Feshkha: Enot Zukim
A rare collection of ancient coins was discovered last week by Israeli researchers, who called the find an "archaeological Hanukkah miracle." The coins are more than 2,000 years old and believed ...
Archaeologists uncovered a nearly 1,800-year-old amulet that offers new insight into the early spread of Christianity across the Roman Empire.
The City of David (Hebrew: עיר דוד, romanized: ʿĪr Davīd), known locally mostly as Wadi Hilweh (Arabic: وادي حلوة), [1] is the name given to an archaeological site considered by most scholars to be the original settlement core of Jerusalem during the Bronze and Iron Ages.