Researchers unearthed 160 coins belonging to the second king of the Hasmonean dynasty, the University of Haifa’s Zinman Institute of Archaeology announced on Monday. Shay Bar, Yoav Farhi, and ...

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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 ...

Displaced since the Hamas-led October 7 attacks on southern Israel, an 11-year-old boy from Kibbutz Magen found a 2,000-year-old Hasmonean era coin while exploring his temporary accommodations at ...

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, during a ...

Jannaeus, a Jewish leader of the Hasmonean dynasty, predated the destruction of the Second Temple, which was a major Jewish pilgrimage site and closely related to the story of Hanukkah.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir visited the ultra-Orthodox Hasmonean Brigade training base today, the IDF says, where he praised the soldiers, whom he said were “pioneers and trailblazers ...

The coins are more than 2,000 years old and believed to belong to King Alexander Jannaeus, the second ruler of the Hasmonean dynasty that presided over Judea in the final centuries leading up to ...

Plus, the descendants of the Maccabees who ruled as the Hasmonean dynasty were deeply flawed characters.

At the same time, as both ancient and modern rabbis have understood, one cannot write the Maccabees, the military battle, or the Hasmonean dynasty entirely out of the Chanukah story.

The liberal Manhattan Democrat said Netanyahu has done more damage to his own people than anyone since a Jewish monarch of the Hasmonean dynasty who invited Roman invaders into the Holy Land to ...