Hebrew University prof claims evidence of urban web around Jerusalem supports understanding David as no mere leader of several thousand shepherds; others call theory a 'fish story'

While archaeologists worry about forgeries, the IAA vows to implement more rigorous testing after a highly touted potsherd thought to be from 498 BCE was found to be inauthentic

Officials backtrack on the announcement, saying fragment was created by an expert demonstrating inscription techniques to students and accidentally left at archeological site

Eylon Levy, international media adviser to President Isaac Herzog, discovered ostracon at Tel Lachish with the first-ever reference in Israel to the name of Persian king Darius I

Dozens of intricately carved oil lamps were found outside a 2,000-year-old central Israel tomb, which is being developed as part of a massive 100-kilometer Judean Kings Trail

With a paucity of contemporary Bronze Age examples for comparison, scholars believe relatable 7-word inscription is first recorded complete proto-Canaanite sentence in Holy Land

Reports identity 5-member team as part of mobster Shalom Domrani's organization, which is feuding with Benny Shlomo's crime family

Israeli, US researchers suggest powerful army quarried and transported 3 million stones in just weeks to build a ramp for battering rams to breach the hilltop stronghold in 701 BCE

Researchers say pottery fragment from Tel Lachish is the oldest artifact of its kind found in region, could explain how writing system reached Levant from Egypt

Hebrew University archaeologist says spatula-like object unearthed at Lachish was 'an identifying marker and symbol' of a Canaanite god