For 14 years, scientists have been growing a tree akin to the Judean balsam — the source of the balm of Gilead — but with no ...

The research article detailing the discovery, “An Israelite Residency at Mahanaim in Transjordan?,” was published last month ...

Schwartz declined an interview with The Times of Israel and would not ... one of the oldest cities in the ancient Levant, and is thought by some to be Tuba, a city in the region mentioned in ...

The continued fighting in Israel limited biblical ... Judah’s second largest city, which was conquered in 701 BC. Compton then looked around Jerusalem and found a similar layout at Ammunition ...

Visitors explore what remains of this ancient city (which includes what's left of the First and Second Temples), both above ground and below. Before you start your exploration, stop in at the ...

Pictured are golden tongues found in Ptolemaic-era tombs during recent excavations in Al-Bahnasa, Egypt, an archaeological area that is home to remains of the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus.

A similar artifact was found several years ago in Austria on a sheet encased in a child’s gold amulet, “on which was written Shema Israel (the ... were common in the ancient world.

An inscribed marble slab featuring the Ten Commandments sold for $5.04 million at Sotheby’s auction house in New York. The stone — written in archaic Samaritan Hebrew script — is the oldest known text ...

A huge Maya city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico. Archaeologists found pyramids ... be the largest Maya site in ancient Latin America.

But the discovery of a newly identified gorgonopsian — the oldest saber-toothed animal ever found — is filling ... of Natural History in New York City. “Everything from the early Permian ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — As the war in Gaza rages, Syria's government transforms, and the Israeli-occupied West Bank seethes, ...