Israel Antiquities Authority
‘Royal’ purple fabric found in Israel dates to days of David and Solomon
By Michele Chabin — February 3, 2021
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Researchers in Israel have identified pieces of fabric dyed ‘true purple’ dating to the 10th century BCE, when David and Solomon ruled in Jerusalem, according to the Hebrew Bible.
Israeli archaeologists discover signs of religion in 9,000-year-old city near Jerusalem
By Bob Smietana — July 19, 2019
JERUSALEM (RNS) — The Israel Antiquities Authority said 2,000 to 3,000 people lived in the ancient city, 'one of the largest of its kind in the region.' This is the first time a prehistoric settlement from this time period has been discovered in central Israel.
After the Hobby Lobby scandal, a spotlight on antiquities sales in Israel
By Lauren Markoe — August 16, 2017
(RNS) — “The removal of artifacts from a country belongs to the imperial era and this should not be happening anymore," said Gabriel Barkay, a renowned Israeli biblical archaeologist. "It dates to a time when archaeologists thought the nations where they excavated were primitive and saw themselves as the guardians of cultural treasures.”
Scholars say papyrus mentioning Jerusalem-based kingdom may be fake
By Yonat Shimron — October 31, 2016
JERUSALEM (RNS) Some scholars question the document's provenance.
Museum of the Bible allies with Israeli antiquities agency
By Lauren Markoe — August 18, 2015
WASHINGTON (RNS) A Christian family's ambitious Bible museum project has forged a key alliance with the Israel Antiquities Authority, giving treasures from the Holy Land a temporary home just steps from the National Mall.
What one Israeli couple found while undergoing a home renovation
By Michele Chabin — July 1, 2015
JERUSALEM (RNS) The discovery lends weight to what some archaeologists have long suspected: that a Jewish community existed in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem neighborhood during the time when Jesus lived.
Jesus may have been tried here: Archaeologists uncover Herod’s palace
By Michele Chabin — January 5, 2015
JERUSALEM (RNS) Discovered under an abandoned prison building that is part of the Tower of David Museum grounds, the trial site is one piece of a vast excavation undertaken by archaeologists from 1999 to 2000 but sealed off for the past 14 years.
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