A 17th-century map of ancient Jerusalem (credit: UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA/UMANSKY COLLECTION) One of the maps in the collection is a Dutch interpretation of a 13th-century map, dating back to the 1600s.

The maps are a unique window into how people thought of, dreamed of, and envisioned the Holy Land 500 years ago - Click the link for more details.

View ancient treasures at Jerusalem’s new national archeology campus The Israel Antiquities Authority’s brand-new digs are more than a museum.

What Rice and his partner in the project, Yael Tarasiuk-Nevo, started to map out seven months ago is a 400km route, The Way to Jerusalem, based on ancient Holy Land pilgrimages. As Rice explains to ...

Archaeologists debate where old Jerusalem and King David's palace were located. A new find near the Temple Mount suggests that the “City of David” was more likely a suburb of ancient Jerusalem.

Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday that they are trying to uncover the meaning of a recently discovered hand imprint carved into the stone wall of an ancient moat outside Jerusalem’s Old City.

JERUSALEM (RNS) — A different piece of the ancient moat was discovered in the 1960s but mistaken as a natural valley. Yiftah Shalev, of the Israel Antiquities Authority, overlooks a section of ...