Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have made an astonishing discovery this Hanukkah season: the largest collection of an extremely rare coin ever ...

Archaeologists in Israel recently made a "dramatic" discovery that provides invaluable historical knowledge about Jewish life in the ancient Roman era of Israel, officials said. The Israel Antiquities ...

A rare collection of ancient coins was discovered last week by Israeli researchers, who called the find an "archaeological Hanukkah miracle." The coins are more than 2,000 years old and believed to ...

The cache is exceedingly large and remarkably rare in comparison to similar finds. Archaeologists from the University of Haifa uncovered a 2,000-year-old stash of extremely rare coins while excavating ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli archaeologists have announced the discovery of a trove of early Islamic gold coins during recent salvage excavations near the central city of Yavne. The collection of 425 ...

Archaeologists in the Judean Desert have unearthed a “mysterious pyramid-shaped structure” dating back 2,200 years. The evacuation was a joint mission between the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) ...

A study released by the University of Haifa showed that silver functioned as money in the Land of Israel as early as 3,600 years ago, roughly 1,500 years before the first coins. Published in Journal ...

Under the ancient village of Huqoq in northern Israel, a cramped tunnel carved into the rock has yielded a cache of bronze coins that ties a quiet Galilean backwater to the final Jewish uprising ...