Using pottery sherds from four Holy Land sites, interdisciplinary team isolates and revitalizes six strains of ancient yeast to create alcoholic beverages of yore

Underground chamber discovered accidentally by road workers appears to be site of earliest Christian royal burial ever found in Britain

After new reading of 9th century BCE Mesha Stele replaces biblical king with Moabite figure, scholar says 3-D imaging proves 'House of David' is more likely, just as many thought

Discovered in a Moshav Ramot garden, once-indecipherable road marker near Sea of Galilee offers proof of the brief 3rd-century rule of Maximinus Thrax

Hebrew University scholar argues fortified structure shores up biblical account of site; others aren't convinced

Author Susan Weingarten finds unusual and surprising recipes in her lively work that traces the origins of the mainstay sweet Passover dish and how it's eaten today

New study reveals that some 10,000 years ago, amount of sheep and goat excretion in ancient village in Turkey multiplied by 10 to 1,000

Byzantine ruler created the 438 Theodosian law code, which collected the thousands of imperial laws of the sprawling empire and officially made Jews second-class citizens

67,000-year-old bones and teeth from previously unknown member of 'Homo' branch of the family tree