When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A 2,800-year-old jar inscribed in Hebrew with the Yahwistic name "Benayo" has been discovered at ...

CORRECTION: A previous version of this article stated that the discovery by Stripling's team could be proof of the true time period of the biblical exodus. It has been corrected to read that the ...

'Atiqot / עתיקות, כרך‎ 110, The Ancient Written Wor(l)d (2023), pp. 301-334 (34 pages) More than 100 previously undocumented Hebrew epitaphs (many of them fragmentary) dating from the fifteenth to the ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has acquired a previously unknown ancient papyrus bearing a Hebrew inscription dated to around 2,700 years ago that had long been in possession of a Montana resident, the ...

An archaeologist who was recently sifting through debris in Israel uncovered a link to a legendary biblical king from the House of David. The Temple Mount Sifting Project announced the discovery on ...

The first-ever study of DNA recovered from an ancient Philistine site is providing a unique genetic insight into the origins of some of the most notorious troublemakers of the Old Testament. Modern ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A rare, 2,700-year-old papyrus with Hebrew script that had been looted from a cave in the Judean ...

Excavations carried out this fall at an ancient synagogue in Albania have uncovered additional sections of the impressive structure. The excavations, now in their second season, are being conducted ...

The "Codex Sassoon" is expected to fetch between $30 million and $50 million in May. A Hebrew Bible dating to the 10th century could soon become the costliest book ever sold. The ancient text is ...

Hebrew Union College Annual, Vol. 70/71, One Hundred Twenty-Fifth Anniversary (1999-2000), pp. 57-73 (17 pages) In the literature of Sumer, Babylon and Assyria one encounters a broad variety of sexual ...