Late Hellenistic News Today

AMMAN — Busts are among the most widespread forms of funerary depictions of a deceased individuals. During his research on funerary sites, Bilal Annan, from the University of Paris, found around 130 busts from the Roman period in Jordan.Busts were relatively cheap and easier to prepare than other artistic forms, unlike the full-figure statue, for example.

AMMAN — When the Roman Emperor Hadrian visited Gerasa (ancient Jerash) in 129/130 AD, the Roman Empire was at its peak. The 2nd century AD represented an era of prosperity, stability and expansion, making Gerasa a known Greco-Roman centre for local manufacture.

AMMAN — When the Roman Emperor Hadrian visited Gerasa (ancient Jerash) in 129/130 AD, the Roman Empire was at its peak. The 2nd century AD represented an era of prosperity, stability and expansion, making Gerasa a known Greco-Roman centre for local manufacture.

An Iron Age moat found in Jerusalem may have been used for defense thousands of years ago.

 AMMAN — The Hellenistic period stretching from 323BC to roughly 30BC, between the death of Alexander the Great and the rise of the Roman Empire, introduced religious, political and intellectual ideas that gradually shaped Levantine cities.Recent archaeological discoveries of lagynoi, tall, narrow neck pitchers that were a status symbol during the Hellenistic period, have

The New Testament accounts of Nazareth are roundly supported by archaeological evidence

AMMAN — A group of archaeologist discovered a hypogean (underground) tomb in 2001 underneath the rocky foundations of the early 2nd-century AD Gerasacity wall. The burial objects found with the skeleton in the rock cut chamber of the tomb fit the material culture of the Late Hellenistic Levant. 

Archaeologists are beginning to shed renewed light on an ancient site -- where, according to the biblical account, the tabernacle for the Ark of the Covenant may have once stood.

Ariel University prof discusses his 'excavation' into the evidence for the practice of the Jewish religion - and points to when we know with certainty that Passover was observed

Finds at Horvat Tefen also shed light on the little-known material culture of the Hasmonean period in the Galilee.