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The Tel Aviv University professor proposes that just because early Israelite kings were nomadic doesn't mean they didn't control complex societies. Look at Genghis Khan

First organized excavation at ruins of Hyrcania sheds light on King Herod's forbidding fortress, where a small 5th-century monastic community waited out the region's regime changes

In First Temple Times, Almost All the Region's Peoples Were Circumcised, Which Indicates That the Roots of the Practice Lie Deep in Prehistory.

From the blog of Dovid Vigler at The Times of Israel

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Discovered at the Ophel adjacent to the Temple Mount, seven letters on clay jar sherd are written in dialect and script stemming from the Arabian Peninsula, epigrapher suggests

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir made an unannounced visit on Tuesday to the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, drawing protests from the Palestinians, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. Jews maintain a 3,000-year-old connection to the Temple Mount, where the two ancient Jewish temples once stood, and toward which Jews around the world face during prayer. The site is also sacred to Muslims, who call it the Noble Sanctuary, and houses the Al Aqsa Mosque, an...

“The government has forsaken the country's historic sites, the perpetrators must be prosecuted,” says the Samaria Regional Council head.

Jerusalem is peppered with fabulous ancient archeological sites that reveal the story and secrets of this most unique city.