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The ancient copper industry at Israel’s Timna Valley was not managed in a sustainable manner.

The damage caused by firewood harvesters hasn't healed even today.

New findings in Israel's Timna Valley show how we might be following in our ancestors' destructive footsteps.

In essence, they destroyed the environment completely, Erez Ben-Yosef explains to i24NEWS - Click the link for more details.

New discovery indicates that the Edomites could have been the powerful culture described in the Bible as rivalling the Israelites.

This week I focus on one of my favorite parts of the desert region of our country: the southern Arava in the Eilot Regional Council.

Beneath a desert in Israel, a scholar and his team are unearthing astonishing new evidence of an advanced society in the time of the biblical Solomon

Rare purple textiles from the time of biblical kings found for the first time in Israel Harry Baker © Provided by Live Science A patch of 3,000-year-old wool dyed true purple, which was recently discovered in Timna Valley in Israel Archaeologists have uncovered rare fragments of 3,000-year-old textiles stained purple — a color considered the height of royal fashion at the time — in southern Israel.  The archaeologists discovered the purple textiles — which included bit...

3,000-year-old fragments of cloth dyed with Royal Purple found in Israel 3,000-year-old fragments of cloth dyed with Royal Purple found in Israel The discovery marks the first time purple-dyed Iron Age textiles have been uncovered in the Southern Levant. Wool fibers dyed with Royal Purple, dating to approximately 1,000 BCE, found in the Timna Valley in southern Israel. Photo by Dafna Gazit, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority. (January 31, 2021 / JNS) In a groundbreaking discovery, Isr...

Royal purple cloth from the time of the Old Testament found in Israel This competition is now closed Royal purple cloth from the time of the Old Testament found in Israel Advertisement While examining coloured textiles from Timna Valley – an ancient copper production district in southern Israel – researchers were surprised to find remnants of woven fabric, a tassel and fibres of wool dyed with royal purple. Radiocarbon dating confirmed the samples date from approximatel...