A persimmon branch on an amethyst seal.

Encrusted in shells but well preserved.

Hundreds of metal items, mostly horseshoe nails.

Producing millions of liters of light, white wine.

A wealth of artifacts.

A First Temple-era luxury.

“Let the stones speak for themselves.”

Hordes of Jewish pilgrims came to Jerusalem and experienced the Temple’s “wow effect.”

Precisely as prohibited in the Torah.

A new theory about Qumran.

The ruins of the Jerusalem of Lithuania.

A Bar Kokhba coin.

A 1,500-year-old precursor to Ramat Hasharon.

Between the Assyrian conquest and the Babylonian.