Excavations indicated that the wall was deliberately and systematically removed, leading to additional questions as to who ...

A rare ritual bath found in Jerusalem offers new insight into purity practices during the Second Temple period.

A 1,300-year-old lead medallion depicting a menorah has been discovered. The object was found in the City of David.

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An excavation at the City of David in Jerusalem unearthed a 1,300-year-old medallion decorated with a seven-branched menorah on each side.

JERUSALEM — On the eve of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City bears few of its usual hallmarks of festivity. Nearly half of the grotto-shaped gift shops are sealed behind metal ...

JERUSALEM — Jews, Muslims and Christians pass daily through the gates of Jerusalem’s Old City on their way to and from prayers or simply to go about their everyday business in one of the most ...

In this Jerusalem travel guide we show you around the old city and surrounding areas then head over to Bethlehem in Palestine ...

Only one other known pendant of its kind exists—a lead menorah amulet of unknown origin currently housed at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. The newly discovered artifact, however, was ...

Archaeologists in the City of David National Park in Israel have discovered a rare stone seal from the first temple period – one of the oldest finds since the start of excavations in the country, ...

Israeli bulldozers tore through a four-storey building in east Jerusalem on Monday, leaving scores of Palestinian residents ...