Some of my most vivid memories from my first visit to Istanbul in the 1970s are of the colorful locals. Scruffy kids sold ...

Kiryat Shmuel is shaped by religious leadership, urban planning under the British Mandate, and the trials of Israel’s early ...

Study details fifth- to ninth-century conversion of a Second Temple tomb into a worship site, complete with apse, altar and multilingual graffiti.

Asceticism in Christianity as practiced for centuries can comprise an array of devotional practices from fasting to ...

Discover the unveiling of a menorah-adorned stone capital in Jerusalem, sparking debates over Jewish historical claims. Middle East| Features ...

Rare African-style figurines dating back 1,500 years were discovered in ancient Christian tombs in Israel’s Negev desert.

According to Dr. Orit Peleg-Barkat from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who specializes ... our region from the late Second Temple through Byzantine periods, the capital discovered at Motza ...

The archaeological find, which features a rare depiction of a seven-branched menorah (a candelabrum used in Jewish worship), dates back 1,500 years and is unlike any artefact previously discovered on ...

Mysterious owners of the artifacts, possibly a mother and child, might have moved to Byzantine village in the Negev from Egypt or the Horn of Africa ...

Ancient artefacts from Gaza amphorae, statues, mosaics, funerary steles and more tell the story of 5,000 years of a ...