After the death of Herod the Great in 4 BCE, the Romans who ruled the Land of Israel granted ... had unwittingly located Tiberias directly over an ancient Jewish cemetery, and fear of ...

The Roman city of Tiberias, long beloved of archaeologists but overshadowed in the public eye by Israel’s more famous or politically combustible ancient sites, is finally emerging from ...

Just in time for Hanukkah, an ancient piece of basalt rock imprinted with an image of a seven-candle menorah was found in a tomb in Tiberias, Israel this ... a magnificent cemetery, and the ...

Yizhar Hirschfeld of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israel Antiquities Authority, and Prof. Katharina Galor of Brown University, Providence, RI. Ancient Tiberias' location, just south ...

Arutz Sheva takes you on a special tour of the ancient cemetery in the Galilean ... one of the four holy cities of Israel along with Hevron, Tiberias and Jerusalem, was the center of Kabbalah ...

Archaeologists surveying an ancient cemetery in Israel say they have discovered ... they can tell that one of the lintels has the phrase "from Tiberias," perhaps indicating the person buried ...

An ancient seven ... door at a Jewish cemetery between the 2nd and 4th centuries CE has been unearthed from a mosque dating to the Muslim period at an archeological site in Tiberias.

The Israel Government’s Archaeological Department has uncovered the ancient walls of Tiberias and artifacts of the Roman Army which, under the Emperor Vespasian, besieged the city some 1,900 ...