The 12.15-meter-long and approximately 1.75-m -wide column is thought to have been quarried in order to decorate the Second ...

Approximately 160 coins minted around 80 B.C. were discovered stashed in the walls of a building in the Jordan Valley. The ...

A coin hoard dating back about 2,100 years, during the time of the Jewish Hasmonean kings, has been discovered at a site in ...

Here is some background information about the Jewish holiday Hanukkah. In 2025, Hanukkah will start on December 14 at sunset and will end December 22, at sunset. In 2024, Hanukkah will start on ...

An interesting discovery was recently made in Central Asia in Tajikistan containing Greek inscriptions on a rock.

In historical terms, the Maccabean Revolt was the beginning of the end of the Seleucid Empire. Moral: Don't mess with the ...

TO say otherwise is a perverse form of historical revisionism. To wish otherwise is to wish for a counterfactual. Facts have ...

Rare ancient coins from the Hasmonean dynasty, dating over 2,000 years old, were discovered in the Jordan Valley, Israel.

The tragedy is compounded by the fact that the Jewish state owes Carter an immense historical debt. In an anomalous way, his ...

Among many other time-tested attributes, the Jewish people have a long memory. Aid us in the manner of the ancient Persian ...

Haifa University team finds cache of 160 extremely rare coins - dated to 80/79 BCE, during the reign of Judah Maccabee's ...

But in 198 B.C.E., the Seleucid (Syrian-Greek) Empire, ruled by King Antiochus III, invaded Israel from the north, driving out the Ptolemaic Empire, and Seleucid reign was harsh and oppressive.