Archaeology in Israel

A sprawling ancient Jewish cemetery with over 30 rock-hewn burial caves.

The mosaic floor of a 4th-century synagogue features a pagan zodiac wheel alongside traditional images of a Torah ark and menorahs.

An ancient underground cultic temple where sunlight penetrates on the summer solstice.

A 2,000-year-old wine press hidden in an overlooked park in Tel Aviv.

This tree was extinct for a thousand years before sprouting again from a 2,000-year-old seed.

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.

Submerged ruins of a Neolithic coastal settlement, where houses, wells, graves and skeletons have been unearthed.

This archaeological site was the center of the extinct Yarmukian culture which developed the first roads and pottery in Israel.