A fortress from the reign of the Egyptian pharaoh, popularly although not definitively associated with the book of Exodus ...

The discovery of a building that the Assyrians likely tore down in the eighth century B.C. reveals the political dynamics of ...

Resin from a tree grown from a seed found in caves in the late 1980s could be the Bibical "Balm of Judea", a study suggests.

Archaeology is the study of the artefacts and other physical evidence left by past societies of humans and closely related species. It uses scientific analysis of field samples to inform ...

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A long-lost tree species has new life after scientists planted a 1,000-year-old seed found in a cave in the Judean Desert in ...

Remains of buildings and a collection of stamped jar handles for the first time offer clues to how agricultural produce in the Jerusalem area was distributed to the empire ...

A 1,000 year old seed discovered in a cave in the Judean desert has sprouted, grown and reached maturity, and appears to have ...

Prof Larry Barham, of the University of Liverpool’s Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology department, is particularly excited about the chance of finding tools made of wood. He says there is a ...

These recent excavations indicate that the original Judahite administrative structure that existed on this site was completely destroyed.

A helmet found in the ruins of the famous Roman city wiped out by a volcano eruption a few years after the destruction of ...