Comprehensive coverage

first house

Excavation site in the City of David showing signs of the earthquake that occurred in 750 BC (photo: Yohana Regev)

Advanced scientific methods made possible extensive and accurate dating of Jerusalem during the Kingdom of Judah

The researchers, from the Weizmann Institute, Tel Aviv University, the Antiquities Authority, Bar Ilan and other institutions from around the world, overcame the phenomenon of "ancient cities" that are not arranged in layers that makes it difficult for archaeologists around the world and presented for the first time an absolute dating of Jerusalem in the Iron Age
Examples of pottery shards (written in ink on pottery). Photo credit: Michael Kordonsky, Tel Aviv University and the Antiquities Authority

The texts in the Tel Arad citadel were written by 12 different writers

  • 6 תגובות
A world-renowned expert from the Forensic Department of the Israel Police examined the written pottery fragments and identified 12 different manuscripts with varying degrees of certainty * Meaning: Many in the Kingdom of Judah could read and write
The second title excavation uncovered. Photo: Yuli Schwartz, Antiquities Authority

Has the 'Commissioner's Palace' from the First Temple period been revealed?

  • One response
Magnificent and rare remains of a royal building from the time of the kings of Judah were discovered in an excavation by the Antiquities Authority on the famous Jerusalem Promenade
Measurements from the floor that collapsed during the burning of Jerusalem during the destruction of the First Temple. Photo: Shai Halevi, Antiquities Authority

The Earth's magnetic field tells the story of the destruction of the First Temple

  • 6 תגובות
A figurine head in the form of a man. Photo: Clara Amit, Antiquities Authority

Findings at Tel Motza near Jerusalem testify to a temple from the time of the First Temple that is very similar to Solomon's temple described in the Bible

  • 6 תגובות
The new address from Tel Arad discovered by researchers from Tel Aviv University. Photo credit: Michael Kordonsky, Tel Aviv University.

A new photographic technology has revealed a Hebrew inscription from the days of the First Temple - on pottery that is still considered clean of a letter

  • 3 תגובות
"Ostracones (inscriptions in ink on fragments of pottery) from the Judean citadel in Arad. The inscriptions date to the end of the First Temple, approximately 600 BC. Photos courtesy of Tel Aviv University (photographer: Michael Kordonsky) and the Antiquities Authority.

In Tel Arad, even the common people knew how to read and write at the end of the days of the Kingdom of Judah

  • 9 תגובות
Dr. Eilat Mazar and the piece of material from the days of the First Temple that she uncovered. Photo: Sasson Thiram

An archaeologist from the Hebrew University uncovered a wall from the days of the United Kingdom

  • 15 תגובות

The Priesthood as You Didn't Know It - Part IV: The Priesthood in Marumiya

  • 4 תגובות

The Priesthood as You Didn't Know It - Part III: The Hellenistic Period

  • 15 תגובות

The priesthood as you did not know it - part XNUMX: the return of Zion

  • 27 תגובות

The priesthood as you did not know it - part XNUMX: the end of the days of the First Temple and the exile in Babylon

  • 40 תגובות
Science website logo
SEARCH