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Archaeology

Israel’s rich biblical history can be found in the country’s archaeology. The Jerusalem Post shares the latest on archaeological excavations at significant biblical and historical sites in Israel and the region.

 Scenes from the excavation.

Archeologists rediscover Vilna's lost Jewish heritage

 Han Tomb Mural, Luoyang.

Archaeologists uncover mural of ‘Westerner’ blond trader in ancient Tang dynasty tomb in China

 The sun rises behind the Pyramids in Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, June 16, 2023.

How were the Great Pyramids of Egypt built?

 Prof. Yuval Gadot of the Tel Aviv University next to the northern side of the moat which protected Jerusalem, and alongside him carved bedrock channels.

Newly discovered biblical moat in Jerusalem reveals city's ancient fortifications

 A close-up of the Tyrian silver shekel coin.

Israel Archaeological Proof: Bringing proof of ancient Jewish settlement in Israel

By DAVID BRUMMER
 A fragment of the rare 3,800-year-old textile, dyed with the Kermes vermilio.

Rediscovering ancient luxury: A 3,800-year-old scarlet textile unveiled in the Judean desert

 Yair Whiteson found a Roman-era ring on a hike with his father on Mount Carmel.

Teen discovers 1800-year-old ring engraved with goddess Athena on Mount Carmel

The remains of necklaces, earrings and bracelets are seen at a site where archaeologists discovered the remains of what is believed to be wealthy members of the Chimu civilization, a pre-Inca society that thrived for centuries in arid plains nestled between the Pacific Ocean and Andes Mountains, in

In Peru, remains of wealthy pre-Inca people unearthed at ancient capital

By REUTERS
 The scene depicted on the surface of this black-figued amphora shows Heracles and his servant Ialous fighting the Lernean Hydra and the giant crab. Behind the hero the goddess Athena.

Newly discovered link between Hercules, Israel suggests cultural exchange in region

  Siberian explorer Bernard Buigues stands near the tusks of a 23,000-year-old mammoth that rests in a block of ice 200 miles (320km) from the Russian city of Khatanga after it was unearthed recently, in this undated photograph.

These are some of the coolest things found trapped in ice

Mayapan

Everything you'd ever want to know about the Maya civilization

 View of the bow looking east at Ma‘agan Mikhael B shipwreck.

Ancient Greek shipwreck reveals new treasures in recent excavation

A view shows a marble statue, uncovered by archaeologists at the site of the remains of the ancient city of Heraclea Sinitica, near the village of Rupite, Bulgaria, July 5, 2024.

Bulgarian archaeologists find marble god in ancient Roman sewer

By REUTERS
Statue of the goddess Athena looking over Plato at the Academy in Athens.

Italian research team possibly locates renowned philosopher Plato's precise resting place

 Elongated skulls at the Inca museum

Evidence of smallpox in 16th century Peru uncovered in Incan children's skeletal remains

 Fossil of a nothosaurus, 2017.

Discovery of oldest sea monster fossil in New Zealand sheds light on dawn of dinosaur age

 An undated side-scan sonar image shows the wreck of Quest, Sir Ernest Shackleton's last expedition ship on which he died off the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic in 1922, as it lies upright and intact on the seabed at a depth of 390 metres northwest of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.

Wreck of famed Shackleton’s last expedition ship ‘Quest’ found underwater off Canada’s coast

 A depiction of Sennacherib's Palace in Nineveh

Lost Assyrian camp uncovered: Could it prove the biblical siege of Jerusalem?

 Patch of bedrock where the graffito is located (arrow); the earthen road is visible in the background.

Ancient graffiti leads archaeologists on a treasure hunt for lost ancient Athenian temple

Mosaic of a Labyrinth with a depiction of Theseus fighting the Minoan Minotaur.

Discovery in Crete may be legendary Minotaur labyrinth

 Two glasses of red wine (Illustrative).

Oldest liquid wine found in 2000-year-old Roman burial in southern Spain

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