Six years into wide-scale Judean Desert cave survey operation, few Dead Sea Scrolls fragments are found. But the Land of Israel's historical picture is ever more in focus, says IAA

Oil lamps and fragments of human skull lead archaeologists to believe Teomim Cave was used for necromancy, or communication with dead, some 1,700 years ago

Nissim Kahlon has been carving out elaborate, mosaic-filled labyrinth since 1973; Environmental Protection Ministry claims home is illegal, threatens coastline

Hebrew University-led research discovers blind and semi-blind arachnids that are surprisingly closer evolutionarily to European species than to their neighbors

Trove of silver coins -- two months' average salary -- document bloody persecution preceding the famous Hannuka revolt when Jews fled to the desert, as written in I Maccabees 2:29

Daughter-father scientific study rules out Egyptian quarries and shows local Holy Land industry was potentially much more developed than previously thought

Blind, colorless arthropods make their home in Ayalon Cave in central Israel, thriving in dark, oxygen-free environment, fed by sulfurous water rising from deep in the earth

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Parts of books of Nahum and Zechariah, world's oldest woven basket, 6,000-year-old mummified child, Bar Kochba Revolt coins among stunning finds from daring Judean Desert rescue op

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