Campaigners who accuse Pret a Manger of caving in to pressure to boycott Israel will protest at one of the sandwich chain’s central London branches on Sunday. The organisers, anti-discrimination ...

Archaeologists say the marble coffin is the first of its kind found in the region. The story it depicts is more often seen in mosaics ...

Greek Orthodox priest looks at a rare Christian mosaic, in ancient Greek, which is seen in the ruins of an excavated early Christian church from about the 3rd-4th centuries AD. Getty ...

She could have picked up any old stone from the thousands in the ruins of Tel Azeka, an ancient town in Israel. Instead, 3-year-old Ziv Nitzan pulled out a 3,800-year-old treasure from the Middle ...

While on a hike with her family, a child stumbled across a 3,800-year-old Egyptian amulet. It will go on display in an upcoming exhibition. By Jonathan Wolfe A 3½-year-old in Israel recently made ...

An inscription bearing the name of a Persian king is "not authentic," the Israel Antiquities Authority said. In a demonstration, an expert in ancient inscriptions had etched the words into the ...

To reconstruct the history of ancient Israel, scholars turn to archaeological excavations, the Hebrew Bible and other discovered texts.

Yitzhak Manger, the Yiddish poet and essayist, died here Feb. 20 at a private sanatorium after a long illness. He was 67. He settled in Israel two years ago.

Two vaulted tombs dating back at least 1,700 years are soon to be revealed to the public for the first time in Ashkelon, Israel. The unveiling of these tombs is part of a broader initiative by the ...

Ancient humans quarried flint to make weapons for hunting and butchering elephants up to 2 million years ago in what's now the Upper Galilee region of Israel, a new study finds.

Hundreds of intact amphorae - ancient storage jars - believed to be 3,300 years old, were discovered 90km (56 miles) off the northern coast of Israel at a depth of 1,800m (5,905ft) on the sea bed.