Greetings from Antiochus Epiphanes: The earliest evidence to date for the use of ceramic rooftiles in the Land of Israel has been uncovered in the City of David National Park surrounding the walls of ...

We are in the midst of the Hanukkah season, the eight-day festival that commemorates the second century BC victory of Judah Maccabee and his family over the forces of the Seleucid king Antiochus ...

Ceramic tiles brought here at the time of the Greek Seleucid king Antiochus IV – of the Hanukkah story – have been discovered in the City of David. In a discovery perfectly timed for Hanukkah, ...

“A long time ago in a land far, far away,” Jewish people lived under the control of Syrian King Antiochus IV, who named himself Epiphanes — “god manifest.” In his attempts to unite the disparate ...

Antiochus IV, referred to as "Evil Antiochus" in Jewish lore, is remembered as a major villain and persecutor in Jewish history, particularly the story of Hanukkah. An ancient coin of Antiochus IV – ...

Israeli archaeologists in Jerusalem "accidentally" unearthed a coin dating back to the Hellenistic era, local media reported Tuesday. Almost 30 years after excavations near the Tower of David in ...