A year after team announces bombshell discovery of oldest Hebrew writing in Israel to media, find hits peer-reviewed journal. But some academics don't see any inscription at all

Settled 2,200 years ago and razed in an earthquake in 740 CE, the Golan Heights site changed hands numerous times over the years; it is now easier to reach for intrepid visitors

Funds to go toward development of Sebastia archaeological park near Nablus, with remains from 10 different periods, over which Israelis and Palestinians have fought for years

Normalization lets Israeli researchers formalize ties with Moroccan experts to investigate remnants of Jewish life - with aid of Israelis who once lived in those abandoned villages

Google Earth imagery shows outlines of three sites in Jordan that have classic design of temporary bases built by Rome; believed tied to conquest of Nabatean kingdom

Phenomenon reversing years of archaeological work to uncover Sumerian ruins of Umm al-Aqarib, home to terracotta facades and other priceless relics

Around 900 CE, a complicated plot-and-berm system used industrial waste to build agricultural fields on sand - launching a completely novel way of raising vegetables

France gets rare access to the ornate coffin in thanks for its 1976 efforts to preserve the royal mummy, which itself remains in Egypt due to a law banning its transport abroad

Ariel University prof discusses his 'excavation' into the evidence for the practice of the Jewish religion - and points to when we know with certainty that Passover was observed

Items of gold jewelry from an 1,800-year-old burial cave in capital recently made public ahead of Israel Antiquities Authority's 48th Archaeological Congress