Experts say that the figurines prove that a Christian community lived in southern Israel nearly 1,000 years ago.

Mysterious owners of the artifacts, possibly a mother and child, might have moved to Byzantine village in the Negev from Egypt or the Horn of Africa ...

Three-year-old Ziv Nitzan from Israel has discovered a Canaanite amulet near Tel Azekah, an ancient site linked to biblical ...

A new traveling exhibition from the Israel Antiquities Authority, Dead Sea Scrolls, is now open at the Reagan Library! Here's how to get $5 off your ticket.

JERUSALEM, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Israeli archaeologists have discovered two rare 1,500-year-old ebony figurines in ancient graves in the Negev Desert, southern Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority ...

A set of rare and intricately carved figurines — including miniature heads of African figures fashioned from black wood and bone — have been discovered in 1,500-year-old Christian graves of women and ...

Israel's Minister of Heritage Amihai Eliyahu states, "Sebastia is one of the most important sites in our national and ...

A top archaeology journal now bars Israelis from publishing on Judea and Samaria unless they work with Palestinian ...

A new study has uncovered hidden social patterns in ancient Hebrew kingdoms by analyzing personal names from archaeological ...

Archaeologists uncovered lion-headed bronze handles in a Roman-era tomb in Israel, raising questions about ancient burial rites.

The archaeological find, which features a rare depiction of a seven-branched menorah (a candelabrum used in Jewish worship), ...