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Did Solomon Really Take an Egyptian Bride?
Not Pharaoh’s Daughter. This coffin cover belonged to a woman who lived in Thebes during Egypt’s 21st Dynasty. Although her name has not been
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Where Were the Old Testament Kings of Ancient Jerusalem Buried?
Jeffrey Zorn presents some of Raymond Weill’s early-20th-century plans from his Jerusalem excavations in “Is T1 David’s Tomb?” in the
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Clay Seals Give Clues to Wealth of Biblical Jerusalem
Clay seal (bulla) of Hisilyahu son of Immer, member of a priestly family of the Jerusalem Temple.Credit: Zachi Dvira A new study, published in the
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Rare, 2,000-Year-Old Silver Coin Found in the City of David
A view of the City of David and the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Photo: Joe Freeman via Wikimedia Commons. JNS.org – A 2,000-year-old silver coin
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Biblical Persimmon Depicted in Ancient Jerusalem Seal
Second Temple period stamp seal, bearing the image of a dove and the biblical persimmon plant. Credit: Eliyahu Yanai, City of David Archaeologists at
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A Toilet Fit for a King?
IAA Archaeologist Yaakov Billig next to the finds.Credit: Yoli Schwartz – Israel Antiquities Authority While carrying out excavations on a
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First Temple Cheating Weight
The 2,700-year-old “cheaters weight” recently uncovered in Jerusalem. Photo Credit: Eliyahu Yanai, City of David. As first reported in the
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The Enduring Symbolism of Doves
In addition to its symbolism for the Holy Spirit, the dove was a popular Christian symbol before the cross rose to prominence in the fourth century.
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First Person: Did the Kingdoms of Saul, David and Solomon Actually Exist?
Hershel Shanks Amihai Mazar (better known as Ami) is one of Israel’s most highly regarded archaeologists. He recently retired from the Hebrew
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Understanding the Jewish Menorah
Does this ancient menorah graffito show us what the Temple menorah looked like? The Jewish menorah—especially the Temple menorah, a seven-branched
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Hezekiah’s Tunnel Reexamined
**Click here to visit the Hezekiah’s Tunnel scholar’s study page.** A young boy wades through Hezekiah’s Tunnel, the most famous of the
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The Stones of Herod’s Temple Reveal Temple Mount History
Ancient construction techniques at Herod’s Temple were more sophisticated than we might think. A stonecutter, right, uses a pickax to cut a channel
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In East Jerusalem, the settler project is expanding underground
Workers at the City of David archaeological site, near Jerusalem’s Old City Natasha Roth-Rowland reports in +972, October 23, 2020 The news
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Ancient Jerusalem: The Village, the Town, the City
It’s made such an enormous impact on Western civilization that it’s hard to fathom how small its population really was—small compared even to
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Facing international outcry, JNF reconsiders East Jerusalem family’s eviction
The Sumreen (Sumarin) family 29 May 2020 Nir Hasson reports in Haaretz on 12 October 2020: The KKL-Jewish National Fund has asked for a rehearing