In 1986, an ancient fishing boat was discovered at the bottom of the Sea of Galilee. While there's no proof it was actually ...

In 1986 a 2,000 year old boat was discovered by two brothers in the Sea of Galilee, and has since been dubbed the 'Jesus Boat ...

Archaeologists have discovered four bronze discs in a 1,900-year-old Roman grave in central Israel. The artifacts depict ...

New research suggests that a burial site once venerated by Christian pilgrims likely belonged to a member of Herod’s dynasty ...

Discovered near Kfar Saba, the ornate coffin fittings may hint at ties to pagan cults -- or a Roman soldier’s final journey ...

Ancient yeast has been coaxed back to life, and the result is a pint-sized portal to the past. Israeli archeologists and ...

“The largest treasure of gold coins discovered in Israel was found in recent weeks on the seabed in the ancient harbor in Caesarea,” Israel's Antiquities Authority said in a statement.

The bronze artifacts may have served as coffin handles for a burial in what is now Israel, but the true nature of the find ...

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered an extremely rare, well-preserved Roman marble sarcophagus which depicts the gods Hercules and Dionysus in a drinking contest.

The inscriptions, which were recently published in Liber Annuus, are composed of 30 inscriptions and nine drawings on the ...

A joint team from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and the Caesarea Development Corporation found the sarcophagus buried beneath a sand dune outside the city’s ancient walls.

In an apparent violation of Islamic tradition, an Ottoman-era grave in Israel's Negev desert holds the remains of not one, but two people: a woman and a boy who might be her son. Islamic tradition ...