Military camps used by the Assyrian king Sennacherib, whose exploits of laying siege to Lachish and Jerusalem are detailed in the Hebrew Bible, have finally been identified, a scholar says. At the ...

Archaeologists say they've found evidence of a battlefield from the Roman emperor Titus' siege of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Recent excavations revealed a section of the so-called "Third Wall" of Jerusalem ...

Scientists have managed to study the impact of a fire that happened more than 2,500 years ago a study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science reveals. Israeli archaeologists assessed the ...

Archaeologists may have discovered evidence of a dire famine that gripped Jerusalem during a Roman siege nearly 2,000 years ago. Cooking pots and a ceramic lamp were found in an ancient cistern near ...

Shimon Gibson, co-director of the Mount Zion Archaeological Project, sets the scene at the Jerusalem site. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) One month after offering up archaeological evidence to back up ...

Archaeologists finished excavating the most complete part ever discovered of the foundations of the walls, which surrounded ...

The destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE is still one of the most important and contested events in ancient history.

With the news about Australia recognizing West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, has anyone noticed the irony that it came within days of the Fast of Tevet? According to II Kings (25:1-4), on the 10th ...

According to the Bible, the first siege of Jerusalem occurred in the year 587 BC, when the city and its temple were destroyed by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II. In the 2,605 intervening years, ...