Archaeologists have uncovered 200-year-old Hebrew inscriptions at the site of the Great Synagogue of Vilna (Vilnius) in Lithuania for the first time since its destruction during the Holocaust.

Hebrew inscriptions on artifacts dating to the period of the Jewish Kings, sculpture of the Canaanite period, and an alabaster incense vessel dating to 13th Century B.C.E. are among finds announced ...

(Phys.org) -- Following the recent announcement of the discovery of the earliest known Christian imagery in the exploration of a sealed first century Jerusalem tomb, controversy predictably erupted, ...

The oldest recorded alphabet may be Hebrew. According to a controversial new study by archaeologist and ancient inscription specialist Douglas Petrovich, Israelites in Egypt took 22 ancient Egyptian ...

A four-line ancient Aramaic inscription, possibly inked by Jewish rebels from the Bar Kochba Revolt against the Romans in the 2nd century CE, has been discovered in a cave in the Judean Desert, two ...

The texts of Hebrew inscriptions of twelfth century Spain were arranged for scientific study and brought from Spain by Louis G. Zelson, professor of the University of Wisconsin, who has arrived here ...

The identification of an eleventh century Islamic astrolabe bearing both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions makes it one of the oldest examples ever discovered and one of only a handful known in the world ...

This first evidence of a Jewish village on the site strengthens the hypothesis, that until now was no more than folklore, that this is the “Kursi” mentioned in the New Testament as one of the sites ...

For many years, the Lithuanian capital of Vilna—known today as Vilnius—was a hub of Jewish religious and cultural life. There were centers of Torah learning, private schools, Jewish presses and ...

An analysis by prominent biblical epigraphers of a textual inscription within the controversial "sign of Jonah" engraving discovered in a first century CE Jerusalem tomb appears to strongly support ...