Dr. Shay Bar, Dr. Yoav Farhi and Dr. Mechael Osband, who led the excavation, discovered the 80/79 BCE-style coins on Friday - ...

Researchers from the University of Haifa and the Zinman Institute of Archaeology hailed the discovery of 160 Hasmonean coins ...

Both Solomon’s kingdom and the Hasmonean dynasty were beset by internal strife in their fourth quarters, allowing external ...

Rare ancient coins from the Hasmonean dynasty, dating over 2,000 years old, were discovered in the Jordan Valley, Israel.

He told the brigade's ultra-Orthodox fighters "we will preserve the Haredi lifestyle of the soldiers here - there is no ...

Chicken bones found by Archaeologists, determined the exact date of the destruction of the Greek city of Scythopolis located ...

Four suspects, already under investigation, nabbed while attempting to loot artifacts from remote Galilee site linked to ...

Archaeologists digging in the Jordan Valley recently discovered a collection of ancient coins during this year's Hanukkah holiday.

Researchers at University of Haifa’s Zinman Institute of Archaeology uncovered a rare hoard of coins that belonged to King Alexander Jannaeus, the second king of the Hasmonean dynasty ...

Researchers at the University of Haifa’s Zinman Institute of Archaeology have uncovered a rare hoard of coins belonging to King Alexander Jannaeus, the second ruler of the Hasmonean dynasty, over ...

An archaeological find has brought new light to the Hasmonean era, with researchers discovering a hoard of 160 coins over ...

Plus, the descendants of the Maccabees who ruled as the Hasmonean dynasty were deeply flawed characters. They combined the office of king and high priest in their own persons, violating the ...