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Her-storical documents: 2 Esther scrolls copied by female scribes celebrate Jewish resilience
4+ hour, 48+ min ago (1560+ words) Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. On February 9, 1767, just a few weeks before the Jewish holiday of Purim, a Jewish teen in Rome celebrated her 14th birthday by putting the final touches on a parchment scroll....
Great Isaiah Scroll, oldest near-complete biblical book ever found, on show in entirety for 1st time since 1968
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (687+ words) Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. The Great Isaiah Scroll, the oldest nearly complete book from the Hebrew Bible ever found, is on display in its full length for the first time since 1968. The scroll…...
Diver finds his second Crusader sword in 5 years off Israel’s coast
1+ week, 1+ day ago (397+ words) Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. A meter-long sword, roughly dating back to the 12th century CE, has been found by chance off the Carmel Coast, in the area of Dor Beach, the University of Haifa…...
New study puts hominins in Israel 1.9 million years ago, rewriting earliest human migration
1+ week, 2+ day ago (819+ words) Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. Ancient humans already lived in the area of modern-day Israel at least 1.9 million years ago, a new study suggests, pushing back the exodus out of Africa to hundreds of…...
Forget the granny flat: Study of Israelite home shows elders ruled the Iron Age roost
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1142+ words) Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. The elderly patriarch and matriarch of a prominent Israelite family living in an imposing building in the Judean lowlands nearly 3,000 years ago appear to have enjoyed their own spacious…...
Takamitsu Muraoka, Japanese pioneer of Dead Sea Scrolls Hebrew studies, dies at 88
2+ week, 1+ day ago (717+ words) Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. Japanese pioneer Hebraist Takamitsu Muraoka died last week in Leiden, the Netherlands, at age 88, after suffering a stroke a few weeks earlier and never fully recovering. A specialist in…...
Two years after collapse, Caesarea aqueduct to be restored in joint project
2+ week, 2+ day ago (292+ words) Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. The Carmel Beach Regional Council, Caesarea Development Company, and Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) signed a NIS 39 million ($12.6 million) joint agreement to preserve and develop the 2,000-year-old aqueduct in Caesarea,…...
2,000-year-old Pilgrimage Road to Temple Mount opens to public after years of digging
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (1220+ words) Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. For Michael Ganeles and his wife, visiting the City of David in Jerusalem was a must when they took their three children to Israel for the first time from…...
Smashed by ISIS, a 2,700-year-old carving may have been the earliest-known depiction of Jerusalem
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1754+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 842 Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. For millennia, hundreds of vivid bas-reliefs adorned the walls of the Nineveh palace of the legendary eighth-century BCE Assyrian king Sennacherib, depicting daring conquests richly…...
Archaeologist Gabriel Barkay, pioneer of Temple Mount research, dies at 81
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1224+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 831 Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. Iconic Israeli archaeologist Gabriel "Gabi" Barkay died on Sunday at age 81 after a long illness. He was well known for his pioneering work on soil…...