In the first century AD, Jews lived across the Roman Empire in relative harmony. Protected by Rome and allowed to continue their religion, everything was fine until rebellion in Judaea led to a ...

In a new archaeological find, the oldest evidence of glassmaking in Israel has turned up, pushing estimates of the area's industrial prowess back to the fourth century AD.

The archaeological investigation revealed that in Nazareth itself, in the middle of the first century AD, anti-Roman rebels created a sizeable network of underground hiding places and tunnels ...

Modern Israel mirrors first-century Judea with its own internal divisions, reflecting religious, political, and ethnic fault lines. Orthodox, Conservative, ...

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—Shimon Gibson of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has discovered a building that may have been the home of an elite Jewish family living on Mount Zion 2,000 years ago.