Exposed section of Hasmonean-age Jerusalem aqueduct (credit: Yaniv Berman, Israel Antiquities Authority). This feat of ancient engineering ingenuity was built with a slight gradient, descending ...

The ancient route led to the Alexandrion Fortress thousands of years ago; an outpost erected during the Hasmonean period in the first century B.C. The coins were discovered on grounds which once ...

Despite over 100 years of exhaustive excavations throughout Jerusalem’s City of David, archeologists have been unable to find a single significant structure from the Hasmonean period ...

A team of archaeologists from the University of Haifa discovered a rare hoard of approximately 160 coins during an excavation ...

Welcome to 100 BCE. Like today, the Land of Israel during Hasmonean times had significant non-Jewish populations. At the beginning of the dynasty, Simon Maccabee drew his borders to keep the realm ...

Hyrcania is mentioned in Josephus' book "Antiquities of the Jews" as one of the three fortresses that queen Salome Alexandra, wife of Alexander Janneaus (the second Hasmonean king who ruled the ...

Indeed, while one of the first purposes of the Maccabees had been to fight the “Hellenized” Jews, the Hasmonean kings had no qualms about adopting the nice accoutrements of Hellenistic life ...

A house dating to the Hasmonean period was uncovered in eastern Jerusalem near the Temple Mount. The building, which was discovered a few months ago but announced for the first time on Tuesday ...

On the penultimate day of Chanukah, police detectives discovered a number of valuable archaeological items, among them a coin from the Hasmonean era, in the possession of an Arab from eastern ...

In what they called an “archaeological Hanukkah miracle,” a University of Haifa team discovered on Friday a rare hoard of some 160 coins, dating from the Hasmonean period, during a dig in the ...

The first 50 ultra-Orthodox soldiers were drafted for regular service in the Israel Defense Forces’ new Haredi brigade, known as the Hasmonean Brigade, the military said on Sunday. The ...