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 The Motza mosaic: Embedded with love by the Motza community, 2023.

Motza mosaicists: Putting an ancient Roman mosaic floor back together

By SARA MANOBLA
 Antiquities recovered from a weapons search on a suspect in Israel's North, March 28, 2024.

Israel Police look for weapons, find trove of unregistered antiquities in North

Time Machines: Driving the Citroën Traction Avant and Its Legacy

By Yoav Pollas
 "It was covered in mud, I cleaned it and called the Antiquities Authority," soldiers said of their  

Reservists find perfectly preserved, 1,500-year-old oil lamp

 A man admires a marble statue of Aphrodite, known as the Velvedere Venus, on display at the Praxiteles exhibition in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens July 26, 2007.

Greek antiquities valued at $3.7 million recovered from New York smugglers

 The Hall of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum, on May 2, 2018

Israel's museums enact war protocol to protect most precious treasures

By REUTERS
 Tourists, coming mainly from Russia, leave from the arrival terminal at Antalya International Airport in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya, Turkey September 22, 2022

Israeli arrested in Antalya, Turkey on suspicion of stealing ancient bell

By Yoav Etiel/Walla!
 Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower the day after FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach home, in New York City, US, August 9, 2022.

Trump holding Israel antiquities among items at Mar-a-Lago

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA
 A mosaic panel is pictured in Al-Rastan city, Syria October 12, 2022.

US man charged for attempted antiquity smuggling from Syria

 IAA Archaeologist with the returned anchor

Israeli returns 1,700-year-old anchor to Antiquities Authority after 26 years

 An ancient figurine of the goddess Hathor found along Palmahim Beach.

Israeli woman finds ancient figurine of Egyptian goddess on the beach

 A wooden box containing 15 silver coins from the Maccabean period was discovered in the Judean Desert earlier this year, and will be put on display in the Hasmonean Museum in Modi'in, December 13, 2022.

Antiquities Authority calls on Israeli public to return stolen artifacts

 The entrance to the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem.

Should Israel outlaw the sale of archaeological artifacts?

By GIL ZOHAR
 A conservator holds one of three Parthenon fragments, returned from the Vatican, at the Parthenon Gallery of the Acropolis Museum, in Athens, Greece March 24, 2023.

Vatican returns ancient Parthenon marble fragments to Greece

  Items recovered from a raid in the West Bank in March 2023.

Security forces thwart illegal antiquity trade in West Bank

 Some of the coins seized from an illegal antiquities dealer in Modi'in.

How did this man get rich by collecting coins?

 “Shelby White & Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Archaeological Center”

American patron of Israeli archaeology becomes focus of New York’s antiquities trafficking unit

By ASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA
 An ancient Roman ring set with an intaglio.

Archaeologists find ancient Roman engraved gems in bathhouse drain in England