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Fast Forward Jews? Pagans? 2,100-year-old discovery in the Galilee reveals huge mystery
We don’t know who lived there, but the inhabitants in this farm in northern Israel seem to have grabbed their essentials and fled, leaving their home and farming gear unusually intact.
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News Close to crumbling, the tomb of an ancient prophet is saved in Kurdish Iraq
For nearly 30 centuries the tomb of the prophet Nahum was an important pilgrimage site for Jews in what is today Kurdish Iraq. But after the founding of Israel in 1948, all its Jewish caretakers began leaving the region, and in more recent years, the Islamic State embarked on its campaign to destroy holy sites…
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Fast Forward In first of its kind, archeologists find an ancient ‘lucky’ oil lamp in Jerusalem
A rare oil lamp, believed by archeologists to have been intended by ancients to bring good fortune, was uncovered in a recent excavation in Jerusalem at the City of David National Park. The lamp was discovered at the foundations of a building which once stood on the famed pilgrimage road of ancient Jerusalem. Ari Levy…
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News Israel Finds New Dead Sea Scrolls, First Such Discovery in 60 Years
New fragments of a Dead Sea Scroll have been discovered during an exhaustive survey of every nook, hole and cranny in the Judean Desert, the Israel Antiquities Authority revealed on Tuesday. It is the first new scroll to have been discovered in about 60 years. Written mainly in Greek, the newly unveiled scroll contains portions…
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Fast Forward U.S. Diplomats Slammed For Role In Opening Controversial Israeli Historic Site
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two U.S. diplomats participated in the inauguration of a controversial archeological tourist site in eastern Jerusalem, angering Palestinian leaders. U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and U.S. Mideast peace envoy Jason Greenblatt were invited to place the final sledge hammer blows on a wall covering the tunnel entrance to the Pilgrimage Road…
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Opinion Israel Is Using Archeology To Erase Non-Jewish History
Every Jerusalem Day, thousands of people descend on Jerusalem, waving flags as they march through the Old City in what is known as the “flag parade” to celebrate the Six-Day war victory in Jerusalem. Dancing through the streets of the Muslim Quarter, the crowd, a large proportion of whom are Yeshiva students, are often heard…
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Fast Forward Israeli High Schoolers Help Uncover 2,700-Year-Old Water System
Israeli high school students helped the Israel Antiquities Authority excavate a 2,700-year-old water system, according to the Times of Israel. The water system, 20 meters long and over 4 meters deep, was likely built after the Neo-Assyrian Empire invasion of Israel in 738 BC. The invasion brought more than just soldiers—it brought agricultural infrastructure, indicating…
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