Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient ...

This week’s Torah portion describes our exile in Egypt. According to the text, we know that Pharaoh enslaved us and put us to work building the treasury cities of Pithom and Raamses (Shemot 1:11). The ...

Using cannabis to get ‘high’ is nothing new. In fact, researchers have found evidence that ancient worshipers in Israel may have used the plant to experience God over 2800 years ago. To make the ...

Israeli archaeologists found a mixture of cannabis and animal dung in the residue found on a 2,700-year-old altar. JERUSALEM (JTA) — The ancient Israelites burned cannabis on their altars during ...

Marijuana residue on a shrine altar is the first “hallucinogenic substance found in the Kingdom of Judah,” researchers have revealed. Some smokers joke that marijuana is their religion, but new ...

Tel Arad is one of those rare archaeological sites where the past still feels intact rather than buried. You can see the layout of the city, walk its streets, and understand how people actually lived ...

Researchers from the UK’s Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute sequenced the genomes of five 4,000-year-old Canaanites, as well as 99 people now residing in Lebanon and have provided convincing evidence ...

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered the remains of an ancient settlement in the Negev desert, uncovering ancient tunnels used by Jewish rebels against the Romans. The underground passageways were ...

A group of top Israeli archaeologists has borrowed tricks of the trade from colleagues in the fields of ecology and biodiversity to analyze around 1,000 first names of Israelites and Judeans recorded ...

Israeli authorities are encroaching on the ancient site of Sebastia in the West Bank to create a tourist attraction aimed at settlers, raising worries of the displacement of Palestinians.

New DNA analysis has revealed that Israel was completely transformed 6,500 years ago, when two different groups of immigrants moved to the region, carrying with them the special mutation that is able ...

TEL EL-SAFI, Israel — At the remains of an ancient metropolis in southern Israel, archaeologists are piecing together the history of a people remembered chiefly as the bad guys of the Hebrew Bible.