Archaeologists may have discovered evidence of a dire famine that gripped Jerusalem during a Roman siege nearly 2,000 years ago. Cooking pots and a ceramic lamp were found in an ancient cistern near ...

Archaeologists may have discovered evidence of a dire famine that gripped Jerusalem during a Roman siege nearly 2,000 years ago. Cooking pots and a ceramic lamp were found in an ancient cistern near ...

A trove of bronze coins, the last remnants of an ancient Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire, have been discovered near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The coins were discovered by Hebrew University ...

A rare coin from an ancient Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire has been discovered in Jerusalem. The Bar Kokhba revolt, which lasted about five years, took place around 132 C.E. (Common Era) or ...

Three intact cooking pots and a small ceramic oil lamp that date to the time of the Great Revolt were recently uncovered in a small cistern belonging to a building exposed in an archaeological excavat ...

JERUSALEM – Israeli archaeologists earlier this month announced the discovery of the first known Roman-era theater in Jerusalem’s Old City, a unique structure around 1,800 years old that abuts the ...

According to the Bible, the first siege of Jerusalem occurred in the year 587 BC, when the city and its temple were destroyed by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II. In the 2,605 intervening years, ...