Rare column heads located at Armon Hanatziv walkway, indicating residents of ancient city found their fortunes outside the walls after easing of Assyrian siege 2,700 years ago

Rare trove 'in excellent condition' includes a coin fragment, cut to make 'small change,' that shows a connection between Abbasid Caliphate and rival Byzantine empire

Israel Antiquities Authority says remains of Egyptian citadel, built to repel Philistines while Israelites settled elsewhere in the country, will be opened to public free of charge

New study of rock and soil samples taken from entire span of Israel provides first comprehensive database for archaeologists to perform 'forensics' on movements of people, animals

Remains from buildings dating back to 16 century, and an attack tunnel from the 1948 War of Independence, among finds discovered during work to build mountain viewpoint

In accord with Muslim roots, 1,200-year-old industrial soap factory uses olive oil as its base, as opposed to lard found in soaps of Europe of the same era

Levant's first deliberate cremation occurred between 7013-6700 BCE, according to new analysis of remains of young adult discovered in northern Israel's Beisamoun site in 2013

A new analysis of 1st Temple-era artifacts, magnetized when Babylonians torched the city, provides a way to chart the geomagnetic field - physics' Holy Grail - and maybe save Earth

Hebrew U Prof. Yosef Garfinkel asserts small male figurines discovered at digs near Jerusalem are an image of the biblical God; other experts angrily dismiss theory

Study of 10,000 seeds from Negev viticulture settlements illustrates how plague, climate change and socioeconomic depression in booming empire's periphery point to its decline