“Seven lamps, one by one, in imitation of the planets.”

A fanciful 13th-century tablet and a current exhibition.

Romans, not Jews.

Rare finds.

A new book tells its history.

And the menorah’s mythological beasts.

What the arch of Titus tells us, and doesn’t tell us, about one of the oldest Jewish symbols.

One of the earliest representations of a menorah ever found.

Archaeologists digging near Mount Carmel have discovered a fragment of a glass bracelet bearing an inscription of a seven-branched menorah. The artifact was found in. . .

What happened to the great golden candelabrum plundered by the Romans and depicted on the Arch of Titus? Contrary to myth, it’s not in the Vatican. 

A gold medallion etched with the image of a menorah may be the oldest Torah ornament ever found in an archaeological dig.