In the meantime, experts are celebrating this ancient pillar head as a “rare ... But if this pillar head does depict a menorah, what was it doing in a Roman settlement?

An ancient seven-branched menorah inscribed on a large slab of basalt originally used as a door at a Jewish cemetery between the 2nd and 4th centuries CE has been unearthed from a mosque dating to ...

A recovered capital, or head of a column, adorned with the Menorah was recently discovered ... employees discovered the ancient capital, which is more than 1,500 years old and is a one-of-a ...

The Hanukkah menorah, or hanukkiah, is one of the religious objects most commonly found in the Jewish home. The tradition of building up to lighting eight oil lamps (plus one shamash, or servitor ...

The menorah symbolizes the religious celebration of Jews who returned to the destroyed temple in ancient Jerusalem and found a candelabra whose oil was supposed to burn for a short time ...

The menorah has seven branches ... who'd been enemies of the ancient Israelites. But while Jewish worship in the region was heavily restricted after Hadrian, a few surviving artifacts indicate ...

4 Nevertheless, virtually all ancient drawings and paintings of the Menorah depict it with rounded branches. Even coins uncovered from the biblical and Talmudic era depict the Menorah with rounded ...

Archaeologists working at Ostia Antica, an ancient Roman port city, have discovered the oldest Jewish ritual bath outside of the Middle East, along with an oil lamp decorated with a menorah dated ...

Last year's menorah lighting also featured some family ... small amount of oil lasting eight days to keep candles lit in an ancient Jewish temple. Hanukkah recalls how Jews fought to maintain ...

On the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, a colorful menorah lights up the night during ... following the death of Alexander the Great, the ancient Macedonian leader who conquered the Persian Empire.