negev

6 min read 2022-02-11 20:30:58

Five Ways to Defend an Ancient City

Aerial image of the Iron Age site of Khirbet Qeiyafa, showing the excavated remains of the casemate wall that protected the town.Credit: AVRAM

1 min read 2022-02-05 21:01:00

Construction work in the Gaza Strip has uncovered a Roman cemetery. There have been reports of looting. Ongoing work at a quarry near Bethlehem has

17 min read 2022-01-24 16:23:00

Beyond Satire – The Union of Jewish Students and Jewish Labour Movement Complain that the Head of a group committed to ethnic cleasing is a

1 min read 2022-01-15 21:01:00

A new study suggests that the mining operations in the Timna Valley and Faynan thrived in the 10th century because of good management. The underlying

14 min read 2022-01-09 23:29:00

By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Israel is Azerbaijan's largest supplier of arms and equipment, accounting for a whopping 69% percent of

13 min read 2022-01-09 23:29:00

By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Israel is Azerbaijan's largest supplier of arms and equipment, accounting for a whopping 69% percent of

13 min read 2022-01-09 23:29:00

By Stijn Mitzer Israel is Azerbaijan's largest supplier of arms and equipment, accounting for a whopping 69% percent of Azerbaijan's major arms

1 min read 2021-11-18 05:10:36

Israeli policemen detain a Bedouin man in a protest against home demolitions on 18 January 2017, in the unrecognised Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran

1 min read 2021-11-13 22:57:00

A new study suggests that Sennacherib’s army collected three million stones in order to construct the massive siege ramp at Lachish in about 25

1 min read 2021-11-12 06:00:57

Construction work in the Negev Bedouin village of Umm Batin in March 2021 Amos Harel reports in Haaretz on 5 November 2021: A visit to the Negev

1 min read 2021-11-06 19:33:00

A gold ring with an amethyst stone was discovered at an excavation of a 7th-century winepress at Yavne. A recent study reveals much about the lives

1 min read 2021-10-23 20:02:00

We have more stories this weekend than perhaps ever before for a single week (nearly 50), so expect a third installment of the roundup on Monday. The

1 min read 2021-10-16 20:05:00

“A huge complex of 1,500-year-old winepresses capable of producing some two million liters of wine a year has been uncovered by archaeologists in

2 min read 2021-10-15 20:40:47

Aerial view of Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Judean hills. Credit: Yosef Garfinkel Despite King David’s prominence in the Hebrew Bible, little

1 min read 2021-07-31 19:55:00

Archaeologists believe that they have greater clarity about the roads in the southern Judean desert leading to Edom following the examination of a