Ronny Reich of the Israel Antiquities Authority announced that a 79-foot section of 3,700-year-old, 26-foot tall fortification wall built by the Canaanites has been exposed. “When you just stand there and see it, it is amazing,” he said. Researchers in Israel have developed a pattern-recognition algorithm that identifies letters, words, and handwriting styles in ancient […]

During this year’s excavations at Tel Bet Yerah, a settlement along the ancient highway that connected Egypt to the rest of the Near East, archaeologists unearthed a fragment of a carved stone plaque. The high-quality of the Egyptian symbol on the fragment suggests that ties between the people of the Jordan Valley and Egypt’s First […]