A detail of the Madaba Map reveals how its makers imagined the world from above. The large body of water is the Dead Sea, and the central walled city is Jerusalem ... mosaic of a detailed map.

The cramped passage lies beneath a rocky spur of land jutting south from Jerusalem’s Old ... maps are still a wonder. But another legacy may be an enduring mistrust of archaeologists among the ...

Recognised as the oldest surviving cartographic depiction of the Holy Lands, the Madaba Mosaic Map was crafted during the reign of Emperor Justinian.

Archaeologists have located Tharais, a lost Byzantine city featured on the 6th-century Madaba Mosaic Map in Jordan. The ...

The Israel Police and left-leaning Israeli organizations reported several instances of violence in the Old City and the Arab Quarter of Jerusalem. Monday is Jerusalem Day, which marks the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast ancient structure in one of the oldest urban centers on Earth. In Jerusalem’s City of ...

Starting in 2021, a research team led by Musallam R. al-Rawahneh—an associate professor of archeology and ancient Near East ...

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In a festive ceremony held today at the City of David National Park in Jerusalem, in the presence of Argentine President Javier Milei, the Government of Argentina presented the City of David with a ...

Groups of young Israeli Jews moved through Muslim neighbourhoods of Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday, ahead of an annual march marking Israel’s capture of East Jerusalem. Local shopkeepers shut ...

A 2,300-year-old gold ring found in Jerusalem's City of David highlights the wealth and culture of the Second Temple period, according to archaeologists.

The event is provocative to the Palestinian population, given it marks the anniversary of Israel seizing East Jerusalem and the Old City, and the group marches through the Muslim Quarter of the ...