More than seven years later, the project’s $17.5 million price tag has nearly doubled to some $31 million, and construction ...

Archaeologists say excavated bath, filled with ash and debris, offers a window into the city’s spiritual life 2,000 years ago ...

Excavations beneath the Western Wall Plaza uncovered a rock-hewn mikveh, or ritual bath, dating to the final days of the ...

Tisha B’Av – Judaism’s holy day of mourning for the ancient destruction of the First and Second Jewish Temples in Jerusalem – was last Tuesday, and had special relevance for today’s conflict between ...

Rock-hewn mikveh uncovered in Jerusalem excavations beneath a destruction layer provides evidence of the events surrounding ...

The ritual bath was found sealed beneath a layer of destruction dated to 70 CE, in which researchers found burned ash and ...

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The newly unsealed Jewish ritual bath, uncovered beneath the Western Wall Plaza, marks the first stratigraphic identification ...

The centrality of the Temple to life in Jerusalem almost seems like hyperbole. It was all things to everyone. And it wasn't just religious life. Though the Torah was read every Saturday and the Temple ...

A rare ritual bath found in Jerusalem offers new insight into purity practices during the Second Temple period.

The Jerusalem Temple (Beit HaMikdosh) and the Ka’ba, the House of God (Baitullah) in Mecca are the two most well-known sites for monotheistic pilgrimage in the world. The Islamic Hajj to the Ka’ba in ...

An Iron Age temple complex discovered near Jerusalem is shedding new light on an ancient Biblical city. The temple complex, which dates to the late 10th and early ninth centuries B.C., was discovered ...