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The comb was first excavated in 2016 at Tel Lachish, an archaeological site in southern Israel, but it was only late last year when a professor at Israel’s Hebrew University noticed the tiny ...
A UNESCO World Heritage site since 2005, Tel Be'er Sheva is an archaeological site in southern Israel, believed to be the remains of the biblical town of Be'er Sheva. Archaeological finds indicate that the site was inhabited from the Chalcolithic period, around 4000 BCE, [92] [93] to the 16th century CE.
Benjamin Mazar of the Archaeological Institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was appointed chief archaeologist for the project. The land, owned by the Jerusalem Waqf, was leased for him to do his archaeological dig. [5] The excavation lasted for a decade, and became one of the largest archaeological projects in Israeli history.
The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, known also as Tel Aviv University Institute of Archaeology, is a research facility at the Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities. Founded in 1968 by Yohanan Aharoni , the institute sponsors interdisciplinary and international fieldwork and research projects on ancient human societies of ...
The chronological periods are abbreviated in this way: Pa - Paleolithic; EP - Epipalaeolithic; Ne - Neolithic; Ch - Chalcolithic; EB - Early Bronze Age; IB - Intermediate Bronze Age (also called "Early Bronze IV" and "Middle Bronze I")
List of archaeological excavations in Jerusalem is an incomplete list of archaeological excavations in Jerusalem.. In 1952 Father Jan Jozef Simons published Jerusalem in the Old Testament: Researches and Theories, [1] which was a complete list of all archaeological excavations in Jerusalem up until the Second World War; the book become the "Jerusalem Bible" for archaeologists.
For ancient sites from the beginnings of written history to Alexander the Great's conquest, see Category:Ancient sites in Israel. For sites from the Greek and Roman eras, see Category:Classical sites in Israel. For medieval sites, see Category:Medieval sites in Israel. Most archaeological sites will fall into multiple categories.
The major find was an almost complete human skull. The finds were reported to the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), which granted another survey. Ofer Marder and H. Khalaily made the survey and found that it was a rich archaeological site. Recognising its importance, the IAA granted a full-scale excavation in 2010.