Eilat Mazar

Hebrew University excavations recently unearthed a clay fragment dating back to the 14th century BCE, said to be the oldest written document ever…

JERUSALEM - Archaeologists say a newly discovered clay fragment from the 14th century B.C. is the oldest example of writing ever found in…

Ancient stone fortifications that were recently uncovered outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City date back some 3,000 years to the time of King…

After a four-year legal struggle, the High Court of Justice has overseen an agreement whereby the state commits to develop a national park near the…

Sunday, January 25"MIGRANT BIRDS know no borders" is the subject of a lecture in Hebrew by Dr. Yossi Leshem of Tel Aviv University. The lecture…

A water tunnel dating back to the First Temple era - but that might have been used even earlier, during King David's conquest of Jerusalem - has been…

She has been at the forefront of a series of back-to-back Jerusalem archeological finds, including what she believes is the biblical palace of King…

Politics: Tzipi Livni: Head of KadimaDiplomacy: Morris Talansky: A man and his envelopesLegal Affairs: Daniel Friedmann: Justice minister with…

A 2,600 year old clay seal impression, or bulla, bearing the name Gedaliah ben Pashur has recently been uncovered completely intact during…

A seal impression belonging to a minister of the Biblical King Zedekiah which dates back 2,600 years has been uncovered completely intact during an…

A large number of predominantly Christian tourists visiting for Easter, together with stringent police security checks and group restrictions, are…

'You can feel it here. It's life, real life," whispers a voice in the dim light illuminating a narrow tunnel hidden below the surface of Jerusalem's…

A prominent Israeli archeologist said Monday that she has revised her reading of an inscription on an ancient seal uncovered in an archeological…

It would seem that participants in the Herzliya Conference (which this year opened at the Knesset in salute to the nation's capital as part of…

A stone seal bearing the name of one of the families who acted as servants in the First Temple and then returned to Jerusalem after being exiled to…

The remnants of a wall from the time of the prophet Nehemiah have been uncovered in an archeological excavation in Jerusalem's ancient City of David,…

Archeologists overseeing contested Islamic infrastructure work on Jerusalem's Temple Mount have stumbled upon a sealed archeological level dating…

Archeologists overseeing contested Islamic infrastructure work on Jerusalem's Temple Mount have stumbled upon a sealed archeological level dating…

A group of Israeli archeologists and public officials who petitioned the High Court of Justice against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the Antiquities…

It is being called some of the most extensive work on the Temple Mount in more than a decade. The two-month-old dig on the Temple Mount is being…