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

Comparison of 350 years of Iron Age storage jars finds that despite changing vessel shapes, the rims maintain diameter of a man's hand -- the source of the elusive 'tefah' measure

Prof. David Ben-Shlomo speaks about new ceramics study, history of Judaism's second holiest site where Abraham buried Sarah, and findings from his recent excavations at Tel Hebron