How did cities come to flourish in the Negev Desert? George Nash has gone in search of Shivta’s former glory. The Negev…
Archaeological work ahead of the construction of an events garden at Hamei Yoav, Israel, has uncovered an unusual church-shaped lantern, as well…
Clay cylinders from the Jordan Valley, traditionally interpreted as 8,000-year-old ritual ‘phallic objects’, have been reassessed as the earliest-known fire-drills. There is…
CWA’s Editor in Chief, Andrew Selkirk introduces the editor of Biblical Archaeology Review – the man who broke the embargo on the…
Archaeologists from Tel Aviv University have discovered a 3,000-year-old hoard of jewellery while cleaning a prehistoric pot. The vessel was found in…
Archaeologists have discovered the only Crusader-period Christian inscription to be written in Arabic. The marble engraving, once part of the city wall…
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have uncovered an ancient royal garden at the site of Ramat Rachel, in the Judean Hills, some…
Archaeologists have found the remains of 71 tortoises and three wild cattle while excavating Hilazon Tachtit Cave, in Galilee, northern Israel. The…
In the morning of 15 July 1099, the starving knights of the First Crusade broke through Jerusalem’s defences and stormed the Holy…
The DNA of a man who died between 1 and 50 AD, and who was buried in a tomb on the edge…
The story of unusual shaped structures thought to have been built by the Israelites upon entering the Land of Canaan.…
Fictional accounts may coincide with historical copper mines at Khirbat en-Nahas…