Yuval Gadot stands at the bottom of the recently discovered moat. Erik Marmor / City of David Archive Beneath a parking lot in Jerusalem, archaeologists have unearthed a moat that may have once ...

(Eliyahu Yanai/City of David) An intact glass vial used for perfume or oils, discovered in an ancient Jerusalem drainage channel, in an image released August 13, 2024. (Eliyahu Yanai/City of David) ...

Ancient Jerusalem sat on a narrow and steep spur, and many of the construction tasks for the city looked at helping reshape the topography of the surrounding area – all activities that the Bible ...

In Jerusalem, Jerusalem, James Carroll details not only Jerusalem’s history as the City on a Hill, but how it has influenced America from the days of Christopher Columbus to Ronald Reagan.

Archaeologists discover ancient Jerusalem moat, solving 150-year-old mystery JERUSALEM (RNS) — A different piece of the ancient moat was discovered in the 1960s but mistaken as a natural valley.

The drainage canal from the Second Temple era tells the story of the city, its prosperity and destruction. Archaeologists have made remarkable discoveries in a recent excavation of an ancient ...

A new discovery in the City of David National Park has provided rare material evidence of the presence of Greeks in ancient Jerusalem. During archaeological excavations operated by the Israel ...

Religion The ‘problem’ of where ancient Jerusalem was built gets murkier A new find near the Temple Mount suggests the ‘City of David’ was more likely a suburb of ancient Jerusalem ...

Archaeologists have discovered an “extremely rare and unusual” ancient stone amulet in Jerusalem that could change our understanding of reading and writing in antiquity. “The seal, made of ...