A rare clay seal found under Jerusalem's Old City appears to be linked to religious rituals practiced at the Jewish Temple 2,000 years ago.
Name of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and date '1229' found on 800-year-old Jaffa wall long thought by archaeologists to be artifact of relatively recent Ottoman period.
The famous 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls are now available for viewing online in high-resolution, thanks to Google and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
The site of a 16th century Aron Kodesh of The Great Synagogue of Vilnius was uncovered. Lithuania's Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius visited with Rabbi Sholom Ber Krinsky.
Exceptional detective-archaeological work at the first season of archaeological digs at Tel Shikmona has uncovered the remains of a house dating back to the period of the Kingdom of Israel.
A 2,000 year-old ossuary, discovered in Israel in 2008 and belonging to the daughter of the High Priest Caiaphas, is said to be authentic by the Israel Antiquities Authority Unit.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has acquired at a price of 100,000 pounds, Hitler's oldest known written expression of his hatred for Jews.
A decades-long dispute between Russia and an Orthodox Jewish group over ownership of holy texts collected for centuries by influential rabbis and seized by the Soviet Union has threatening cultural loans between the two countries.
The Pope has exonerated the Jewish people for the death of Christ, insisting that they must not be collectively blamed for his death.
A joint project between Yad Vashem and Google will make public access to Nazi-era documents and photographs easier.
Notorious Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was a secret agent for West German intelligence in Bolivia after World War II, German magazine Spiegel reported on Monday.
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