Excavations

This agricultural settlement reached its zenith in the Early Bronze Age, roughly 5,000 years ago.

Since 2017, a team of archaeologists from the IAA’s Prevention of Archaeological Theft unit has been systematically surveying the Judean Desert to reach valuable finds before the antiquity looters.

In the future, the team wants to find out more about the dimensions of the sanctuary, and what its purpose was. There is also speculation as to what else lies beneath the earth in this location. 

Archaeologists excavated a corbelled passageway and a large vault built of thousands of unfired mud bricks, the first example of corbelled architecture found in Israel.

Three of the five were found where the temple's wall once, and the other two were discovered in post holes.

An Israeli teenager found an ancient Hellenistic ring while visiting a national park in the Golan Heights.

It is the first discovery of its kind from the Phoenicopteridae flamingo family in the Americas and only the second in the world.

The vessel was probably part of a river fleet serving Viminacium, the sprawling and highly-developed Roman city of 45,000 people.

This ancient trade route facilitated significant commerce between Northern and Southern Europe, highlighting the site's pivotal role in regional connectivity during ancient times.

The Casas del Turuñuelo site is the best-preserved building on land in the western Mediterranean to date.