Ruthlessly lavish in his lifetime and a villain of Jewish ... of his tomb outside Jerusalem.Hebrew University archeologists on Tuesday announced the find of the first-century BCE monarch’s ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have found of the tomb of King Thutmose II - the first discovery of an ancient royal tomb since King ...

In the first century of our era there were many sects and schools in Jewish society. We hear about the Essenes, of course, the Jews of Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls, who separated themselves from ...

In November 1990, archaeologists found a burial cave in south Jerusalem, containing 12 bone boxes, two of which featured the inscription "Caiaphas" - the name given to the Jewish high priest who ...

extensive history of the Jewish people ... from Biblical days coming down to his own time. Josephus wrote mostly at the end of the first century ... around the year 100, just a few years before ...

301-334 (34 pages) More than 100 previously undocumented Hebrew epitaphs (many of them fragmentary) dating from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century were uncovered in the ancient Jewish cemetery ...

The inspection revealed a painted tomb chamber adorned with frescoes dating back to the mid-5th century BCE ... paintings is already evident in the first restoration," said Superintendent ...