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

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

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

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

Breakthrough analysis of ancient fragments shows textual differences in Book of Jeremiah in 2nd Temple era; DNA procedure can be used to match tiny pieces to their original scrolls

Purpose of unique ancient complex still unclear, but indicates possible subterranean Second Temple-era life in Jerusalem's Old City prior to the Roman conquest in 70 CE

Once-in-a-career Bronze Age findings from Lachish described as 'breathtaking' by archaeologist Yosef Garfinkel, who published a comprehensive report on 2013-2017 excavations

Large 10th century BCE worship complex at Motza shows site 4 miles from the Temple Mount was 'sanctioned' by Jerusalem administration, say archaeologists

Multi-disciplinary Tel Aviv University study uses new image processing and computer learning techniques to reexamine large cache of paleo-Hebrew ostraca from 8th century BCE

With Texan chutzpah, Dr. Scott Stripling says all digs must start wet sifting their earth, as he recovers overlooked ancient items at the first Israelite priestly capital