Artifact daubed with red pattern and trio of animals, considered advanced for its time, discovered near olive press in Yatir Forest The post Archaeologists in Negev unearth 1,200-year-old jug ...

The Negev is a large desert region in southern Israel ... copper and silver jewellery, alabaster vessels for incense transport, and an amulet of the Egyptian god Bes. The discoveries have shed ...

Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists have uncovered a previously unknown burial site in the Negev Highlands ... for trade caravans traversing the desert. Located near Telalim junction ...

The Ramon Crater (“Makhtesh Ramon”) in the Negev desert is the world’s largest erosion crater. The crater’s ancient history dates back 220 million years to when an ocean once filled the ...

The four Nabatean towns of Haluza, Mamshit, Avdat and Shivta, along with associated fortresses and agricultural landscapes in the Negev Desert, are spread along routes linking them to the ...

Instead, he was one of a small, intrepid group of vintners who acquired patches of barren desert in the Negev Desert—a dusty no-man’s land in Israel’s south, about 15 miles from the Egyptian ...

According to excavator Nir-Shimshon Paran, “The monastery was well-preserved, attesting to the daily life of the monks in the Negev in the ... served to place a vessel,” Paran notes.