In the ongoing search for the grave of Richard III, archaeologists have unearthed paving stones that may mark the spot of an early seventeenth-century garden. The garden belonged to Robert Herrick, a mayor of Leicester, who built a mansion and the garden on the site of the Grey Friars monastery. A visitor to his home […]

Excavators with the Israel Antiquities Authority discovered a plaster-lined, rock-hewn reservoir dating to the First Temple period in Jerusalem’s Old City. It had been thought that people had relied on spring water at that time. “Presumable the large water reservoir, which is situated near the Temple Mount, was used for the everyday activities of the Temple […]