A group of top Israeli archaeologists has borrowed tricks of the trade from colleagues in the fields of ecology and biodiversity to analyze around 1,000 first names of Israelites and Judeans recorded ...

This week’s Torah portion describes our exile in Egypt. According to the text, we know that Pharaoh enslaved us and put us to work building the treasury cities of Pithom and Raamses (Shemot 1:11). The ...

CORRECTION: A previous version of this article stated that the discovery by Stripling's team could be proof of the true time period of the biblical exodus. It has been corrected to read that the ...

Israel has acquired a previously unknown ancient papyrus bearing a Hebrew inscription dated to around 2,700 years ago that had long been in possession of a Montana resident, the country’s antiquities ...