This is the depiction on an artifact called the Zvenigorodsky Seal of King Artaxerxes I defeating an enemy. Artaxerxes ruled the Achaemenid Empire from 465 to 424 B.C. (Courtesy Photo) Known as “The ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Archaeologists have finished uncovering the longest continuous remains of an ancient wall that encircled Jerusalem, including possible evidence of a 2,100-year-old ceasefire between ...
Archaeologists have finished uncovering the longest continuous remains of an ancient wall that encircled Jerusalem, including possible evidence of a 2,100-year-old ceasefire between warring kingdoms.
A newly exposed stretch of fortification in Jerusalem has given archaeologists a rare, almost cinematic glimpse of how an ancient city defended itself at a moment of existential danger. The discovery, ...
New research suggests a long-overlooked bas-relief in King Sennacherib’s palace in modern-day Mosul, Iraq, destroyed with ...