A coin hoard dating back about 2,100 years, during the time of the Jewish Hasmonean kings, has been discovered at a site in ...
Archeologists have uncovered a rare hoard of 160 ancient coins dating back 2,100 years during the reign of Alexander Jannaeus ...
Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a treasure trove of rare coins dating back to the Hasmonean dynasty and the origins of Hanukkah.
The University of Haifa recently announced that 160 ancient coins depicting Alexander Jannaeus were found during an ...
Archaeologists digging in the Jordan Valley recently discovered a collection of ancient coins during this year's Hanukkah ...
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 ...
Mai Hanukkah - "What is Hanukkah?" asked the rabbis of the Talmud. In answer to their own rhetorical question, they chose not to tell the story of the Maccabean victory over the Seleucid empire in 160 ...
One of the largest hoards of ancient coins ever found in the Jordan Valley region was unearthed by Israeli archaeologists ...
In Tractate Shabbat 21b, the Talmud explains the miracle as follows: And when the Hasmonean dynasty prevailed against and defeated them, they made search and found only one cruse of oil which lay ...
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 ...