Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Israel thwarts Palestinian attempt to pave over biblical city of Gibeon. (photo credit: Binyamin Land Dept./TPS-IL) Historically, ...

When we went to Palestine in the summer of 1956 to begin the first archaeological excavation of the city of Gibeon, we might have anticipated our most important discovery from some hints in biblical ...

Archaeologists have published the contents of a small burial cave discovered on the northern slope of Mount Nebi Samwil, about 700 m south of biblical Gibeon and eight kilometres northwest of ...

Bibleland archaeologists have long suspected that the tiny Arab village of el-Jib eight miles northwest of Jerusalem hides fascinating secrets. The village stands on an oval man-made mound, and the ...

Around 600 million years ago, a massive meteoroid hurtled through space before shattering into pieces above the Earth. It was originally formed around the same time as our Sun and the Earth and after ...

About four centuries after David’s men beat Saul’s at the pool of Gibeon (“And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side, so they fell down together”), ...

Historically, Gibeon was described as “the great city of Gibeon, one of the cities of the kingdom,” serving as one of the 13 priestly cities in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. Israeli ...

Late Bronze Age cave at Nebi Samwil yields locally made Base Ring imitation, pointing to pottery production in the Judean hills. Archaeologists have published the contents of a small burial cave ...

Israeli authorities prevented what they described as a deliberate attempt by the Palestinian Authority to damage a major archaeological site in the Binyamin region. The operation, carried out on ...