MidEast: Rare coin found in Judean Desert linked to ancient conflict
The nearly 2,000-year-old coin dates back to the Bar Kokhba Revolt in 132 CE and is engraved with the inscription…
Israel: Unique Byzantine Psalm inscription in New Testament Greek discovered in Judean Desert
First organized excavation at ruins of Hyrcania sheds light on King Herod’s forbidding fortress, where a small 5th-century monastic community…
Israel: Discoveries in the Judean Desert
A project surveying caves in the Judean Desert, Israel, has led to several important discoveries, including the first new fragments…
Israel: Newly discovered papyrus dates back to second-century Jewish revolt
A newly discovered second-century C.E. papyrus, recently acquired from Bedouin who found it in a Judean Desert cave, is dated…