And the origins of myths about it.

Casting doubt on the Mount Ebal “curse tablet.”

A Civil War chaplain and a forged statue of a Near Eastern goddess.

The Isle of Elephantine.

A courtesan’s mirror.

The palm frond and the sword.

Isaac Luria’s 16th-century living complex.

A unique find.

“The likes of which have never been found in Israel.”

One of “the largest and most complex water systems” of its time.

A secret ammunition factory.

A 5,500-year-old stone and mud-brick passageway.

In a Greek colony on the Black Sea coast.

Ma’on and its mosaics.