The latest discoveries in the Judean Desert are not just spectacular artifacts, they are hard evidence that Christian ...

Israeli archaeologists discovered rare 1,400-year-old gold treasure at an ancient monastery site in Judean Desert, including Byzantine coins and an ornate ring.

File - In this Jan. 16, 2012 file photo a couple walks towards St. George Monastery in Judean desert. St. George is a 5th century Byzantine monastery built at the site of the cave where according to ...

More than 2,000 years ago, the trade of Dead Sea bitumen and salt was thriving in the Levant. Delivering them from source to market required a long and potentially hazardous journey through the Judean ...

A huge 2200-year-old pyramidal structure with a way station beneath it – from the days of the Ptolemaic and Seleucid rulers— is now being unearthed in the Judean Desert, north of Nahal Zohar, by a ...

Archaeologists have discovered rare Byzantine-era gold coins and a delicate ring at a remote site in the northern Judean ...

Archaeologists have discovered a rare 1,400-year-old limestone mold at Hyrcania in the Judean Desert that was used to manufacture small devotional flasks for Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land.

Scientists have revived a mysterious, 1,000-year-old seed discovered in the Judean Desert — and the tree that has grown from it could belong to a lost lineage mentioned in the Bible, they say. It has ...

Archaeologists in the Judean Desert have unearthed a “mysterious pyramid-shaped structure” dating back 2,200 years. The evacuation was a joint mission between the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) ...

An American tourist hiking in the Qumran region in southern Israel recently stumbled upon a remarkable discovery: a fully intact pottery vessel from the Early Bronze Age. According to the Israel ...

JERICHO, West Bank (AP) – Located between Jerusalem and Jericho, the Judean Desert provided an inspiration to thousands of hermits who lived here in the early Middle Ages. The arrival of electricity ...

Early on Thursday night, there will be intermittent rainfall and isolated thunderstorms, from northern Israel to the Negev, ...