The Sibylline Oracles, likely written by a Jew post-Vesuvius eruption, ostensibly prophecy the city's devastation as divine retribution for sacking of Second Temple 9 years prior

Science Magazine readers overwhelmingly vote in favor of Hebrew University scientists Liran Carmel and David Gokhman's depiction of a Denisovan teenager, cousin of modern humans

Archaeologists said to find rock table in 3,100-year-old temple in Beit Shemesh that echoes Biblical description of ark's resting place

Researchers date youngest known remains of ancestor of our species; fresh estimate puts them at 108,000 to 117,000 years old; may have died when woodland became rain forest

With discovery of ancient breakwater off coast of Haifa, archaeological record shows how Neolithic villages tried to protect their homes from melting glaciers

Ministry says dome-shaped roofs of graves near Bronze Age palace of Pylos collapsed during antiquity, and chambers were filled with rubble, preventing ravaging by grave robbers

Pink granite casting of famous ruler associated with Exodus story, found on property of man arrested for illegal digging, is called 'one of the rarest archaeological discoveries'

Although a staple of the Roman Empire, very few garum production sites or cetariae have been found in the Eastern Mediterranean

Hebrew University researchers' genetic analysis of Denisovans, cousins to Neanderthals, one of four 'people's choice' finalists for recognition by prestigious Science magazine

Scientific study of plaster used in cemetery near Ein Gev indicates community must have worked together to bury their deceased, shedding new light on ritual and mass production