A mysterious fortress near the Dead Sea has been unearthed, revealing ancient documents and relics from the Hellenistic ...

For ages, the Judean Desert has kept its ancient secrets buried under layers of sunbaked silence. But now, one of those ...

The excavation is part of a wide-ranging campaign launched eight years ago to protect archaeological sites in the Judean ...

How Hellenized was the Jewish religious culture of the time? Jewish culture and civilization during the Hellenistic period was in intense dialogue with Hellenistic culture and civilization ...

Minneapolis-Tel Aviv. Pp. 177-187. Fischer M. and Tal O. 1999. The Hellenistic Period. In I. Roll and O. Tal. Apollonia-Arsuf; Final Report of the Excavations I: The Persian and Hellenistic Periods ...

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have discovered a pyramid-shaped structure and ancient artifacts in the ...

During the Hellenistic period, residents of Teos would have looked up at a massive east façade with a monumental inscription naming the person who paid for the building; two entryways to the ...

A recent archaeological discovery in Egypt’s Eastern Desert has revealed the harsh reality faced by miners during the Ptolemaic period. During excavations at the Ghozza site, a team of French ...

The mausoleum of Antiochus I (69–34 B.C.), who reigned over Commagene, a kingdom founded north of Syria and the Euphrates after the breakup of Alexander's empire, is one of the most ambitious ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a massive, pyramid-like structure dating back over 2,200 years in the Judean Desert, ...