Sunday, September 6th, 2009 | Post a comment

The wall is built of enormous boulders, confounding archaeologists as to how ancient peoples built it.
JERUSALEM — An archaeological dig in Jerusalem has turned up a 3,700-year-old wall that is the largest and oldest of its kind found in the region, experts say.
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The Temple Institute began work on the sacrificial altar Thursday, Tisha B’av, the day the Second Temple was destroyed almost 2,000 years ago.
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Friday, June 26th, 2009 | 7 comments

Abuna Pauolos, patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009 | 4 comments

Sheikh with Muslim students (Photo: Shai Vaknin)
Leader of Islamic Movement’s northern branch warns Muslim students at Haifa University that prime minister intends on completing plans from his first tenure. ‘If they suggest we give up our holy sites, we would rather die and will welcome death,’ he says
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 | Post a comment
Royal seal impressions were discovered in excavations of the Israel Antiquities Authority at Umm Tuba, in the southern hills of Jerusalem.
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 | Post a comment

One of the artifacts found at the excavation site.
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A routine archeological excavation ahead of private construction in an Arab neighborhood on the outskirts of Jerusalem has uncovered a series of seal impressions from the reign of the biblical King Hezekiah 2,700 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Monday.
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008 | 2 comments

Official leading peace talks claims Israel trying to ‘invent’ historical Jerusalem link
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008 | Post a comment
A water tunnel dating back to the First Temple era – but that might have been used even earlier, during King David’s conquest of Jerusalem – has been uncovered in the ancient City of David, a prominent Israeli archeologist said Wednesday.
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