IAA - Israel Antiquities Authority Books

This guide will introduce the visitor to Tiberias, enable him to locate these sites and recreate in his mind’s eye the appearance of the city-it’s buildings, streets and institutions throughout its long history.

The excavations conducted in Tiberias from 1989 to 1994 focused on two sites located within the boundaries of the ancient city: The first in the area of the Sewage Processing Plant at the foot of Mount Bereniece, approximately 200 meters above the sea of Galilee.

The excavations conducted in Tiberias from 1989 to 1994 focused on two sites located within the boundaries of the ancient city: The first in the area of the Sewage Processing Plant at the foot of Mount Bereniece, approximately 200 meters above the sea of Galilee.

This Israel Antiquities volume, is the first in a series on final reports on excavations at Maresha during the 1980s and 1990s.

It provides direct archeological evidence, rich in quantity and quality, from a site not yet inhabited after 67 CE, for the notoriously elusive first centuries BCE and CE in Galilee.

The confluence of the Kidron and Hinnon Valleys, south of the old city of Jerusalem, contains one of Jerusalem’s richest concentrations of rock-hewn tombs.

Cave No. 13, known as the “Cave of the warrior”, was discovered during an extensive survey of rock shelters and caves in lower Wadi el-Makkukh in the Jericho area.

This guide book describes the archeological remains in the area defined in the north by the south wall of the temple mount, in the east by the slope of the Mount of Olives and by the Kidron valley, and in the west and the south by the valley of Hinnon.

The Christian Monastic movement first arose in Egypt and Syria in the second half if the third century CE.

The town of Korazim(Chorazin) is forst mentioned in the first/second centuries CE, in the new testament, along with Bethsaida and Capernaum. These three towns were condemned by Jesus because they did not accept his teachings.

Documentation, Research and inspection of antiquities.

Along with its religious and cultural history, the Temple mount went through the British, Israeli and Jordanian rule, each conducting their own construction, re-construction and archeological activities on the Mount.

“A Christian prayer hall of the third century CE at Kefar ‘Othnay(Legio)”, is one more quality publication of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

This Israel Antiquities Authority publication reveals to us finding from the excavations in Ashdod.