The bloody reign of Alexander Yannai.

Numismatics 101.

Jews were neither xenophobes nor perpetual victims.

Evidence of a bustling Hellenistic metropolis.

Stone structures in the wilderness.

Discovered thanks to 94-year-old aerial photographs.

Confirming the evidence of the Talmud.

And may help clarify Jerusalem’s borders at the time.

But were their owners Jews?

The biblical spies in Ḥuqoq.

A sign that rebels knew their fate was sealed?

Fighting idolatry in the 8th century BCE.

The ruins at Baram.

A miniature head.