From tax evasion to hidey-holes, IAA excavation director Yardenna Alexandre discusses Jewish life in the small village where Jesus grew up

Among the 2,700-year-old finds: 120 inscribed seal impressions on jars at storage facility holding food collected as taxes for kings Hezekiah, Menashe in First Temple times

Experiments on 160,000-year-old clam shell fossils in northern caves indicate they are earliest examples of shell beads strung for display on the human body, Israeli scientists say

Article in Asian Archaeology reveals forms of ancient art found in Israel's Bronze Age burial chambers -- from unique herd of horned animals to what may be a first smiley face

Rare discoveries in City of David confirm that after Babylonian destruction of 586 BCE, city was slowly resettled in Persian era, with a revived bureaucracy, as told in the Bible

Advocacy group Safeguarding Eternity says ruins of Hasmonean and Herodian forts are too important to nation's heritage to be left outside government sovereignty, Reuters reports

Archaeologists unearth weapons stash dating back to Six Day War, 'frozen in time in a water cistern' at the holy site

Discovery of fossils of cold-climate rodents alongside remains of region's 1st modern humans shows they arrived from hot cradle of Africa during Ice Age, but were able to adapt

Remains of affluent, rural community discovered at Pi Mazuva in 2007 include crosses, pagan-inspired mosaic; new publication illuminates the Christians who lived there

Hebrew University archaeologist says spatula-like object unearthed at Lachish was 'an identifying marker and symbol' of a Canaanite god