Jerusalem the Golden: Why were young girls buried, adorned with fine gold jewelry, in Jerusalem in the Roman period? On Monday, items of gold jewelry, discovered in past excavations in burial ...

The jewelry would have been worn by the girl during her life and placed in her coffin to keep her safe, a common pagan practice that shows the diversity of late Roman Jerusalem, experts said.

For the first time since the Romans leveled Jerusalem 1,800 years ago, a Jewish army ate Passover matzoth and bitter herbs around campfires in the field. Said Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben ...

The incident occurred at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on Thursday, according to officials. The statues date to the 2nd century C.E. and were part of the Archeology Wing's permanent exhibition.

Pieces of gold jewelry from the Roman period discovered in a burial cave in Jerusalem will be presented ... as amulets against the evil eye nearly 1,800 years ago. The impressive items that ...

T here are voices – loud, passionate, sometimes even well meaning – that tell us this is not the time to celebrate Jerusalem Day (Yom Yerushalayim). They argue that as our sol ...

Jewelry designed to ward off the “evil eye” and protect a young girl in her passage to the afterlife more than 1,800 years ago has been unveiled in Jerusalem some 50 years after the items were ...