For ages, the Judean Desert has kept its ancient secrets buried under layers of sunbaked silence. But now, one of those ...

The excavation is part of a wide-ranging campaign launched eight years ago to protect archaeological sites in the Judean ...

A massive pyramidal monument, believed to be 2,200 years old, has been uncovered in the Judean Desert, providing new insight ...

Minneapolis-Tel Aviv. Pp. 177-187. Fischer M. and Tal O. 1999. The Hellenistic Period. In I. Roll and O. Tal. Apollonia-Arsuf; Final Report of the Excavations I: The Persian and Hellenistic Periods ...

How Hellenized was the Jewish religious culture of the time? Jewish culture and civilization during the Hellenistic period was in intense dialogue with Hellenistic culture and civilization ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a massive, pyramid-like structure dating back over 2,200 years in the Judean Desert, ...

The mausoleum of Antiochus I (69–34 B.C.), who reigned over Commagene, a kingdom founded north of Syria and the Euphrates after the breakup of Alexander's empire, is one of the most ambitious ...

Among the objects found was a small bowl used for incense burning, indicative of cult ceremonies during the Hellenistic period. This artifact suggests that ritual practices were conducted within ...

J.-C. environ: Premier bilan (BAR Int. S. 990). Oxford. Finkielsztejn G. 2004. Koan Amphorae Imported in the Southern Levant in the Hellenistic Period. In Högammar K. ed. The Hellenistic Polis of Kos: ...

Discovered in 1944, this tomb dates from the Hellenistic period, around the end of the 4th century BC. It is located near Seutopolis, the capital city of the Thracian king Seutes III, and is part of a ...