Bronze Coin Trove From Jewish Revolt Unearthed Near Temple Mount
TEL AVIV – A stash of extremely rare bronze coins from the time of the Jewish Revolt against the Romans has been unearthed in a cave close to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – A stash of extremely rare bronze coins from the time of the Jewish Revolt against the Romans has been unearthed in a cave close to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM — Israeli archaeologists on Monday announced the discovery of the first known Roman-era theater in Jerusalem’s Old City, a unique structure around 1,800 years old that abuts the Western Wall and may have been built during Roman Emperor Hadrian’s reign.
Palestinian and French archaeologists began excavating Gaza’s earliest archaeological site nearly 20 years ago, unearthing what they believe is a rare 4,500-year-old Bronze Age settlement.
A medieval building that may have been used as a synagogue has been uncovered at the site of Huqoq, a village near the Sea of Galilee in Israel.
Inspectors from the Israel Antiquities Authority and Israeli Border Police apprehended a band of 11 antiquities thieves this week who they caught in the act of digging into a hidden cave located in what was once a Jewish village in the Lower Galilee region.
TEL AVIV – Seven-thousand-year-old olive pits discovered in northern Israel’s Tel Beit She’an Valley are likely the result of an ancient artificial irrigation technique, archeologists said on Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – The Qesem Cave, discovered by accident during road works outside Tel Aviv 16 years ago, is arguably the world’s foremost prehistoric site in the world, shedding light on how early humans lived and ate.
TEL AVIV – As Jews worldwide mark Tisha Be’Av, the Jewish fast day commemorating the destruction of the Second Temple at the hands of the Roman Empire in 70 CE, Jewish archeologists recount the challenges in unearthing Jewish artefacts that prove the unbreakable bond between the land of Israel and the Jewish people.
TEL AVIV – Israel slammed a United Nations agency for attempting to “distort history” ahead of a vote on a resolution denying any Jewish connection to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – Remains of animals found in Gath prove that the ancient Canaanites residing there were not using their own livestock for sacrificial offerings but imported animals from neighboring Egypt, Haaretz reported.
Researchers have dug up the fossilized skeletons of a group of prehistoric hunter-gatherers, killed in a massacre some 10,000 years ago, in what is now northwest Kenya.
Evidence has been uncovered corroborating the site of one of Jesus’ most powerful and dramatic miracles: the casting out of demons into a herd of swine in the land of the Gadarenes (or Gerasenes).