Archaeologists digging in the Jordan Valley recently discovered a collection of ancient coins during this year's Hanukkah ...

The University of Haifa recently announced that 160 ancient coins depicting Alexander Jannaeus were found during an excavation in the Jordan Valley in December.

Aaron Lipkin Facebook. Archaeologists have made an astonishing discovery this Hanukkah season: the largest collection of an ...

Archaeologists from the University of Haifa uncovered a 2,000-year-old stash of extremely rare coins while excavating a site in Israel’s Jordan Valley, Ancient Origins reported. Researchers ...

That piece of history is a small silver coin rich in symbolism, minted during a Jewish revolt nearly 2,000 years ago. Looted in Israel in 2002, it was eventually tracked down, seized and is being ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A rare hoard of 425 Islamic coins from the ninth century were uncovered in central Israel by a group of young people volunteering before their compulsory army service.

Dr. Farhi, curator at the Eretz Israel Museum, noted that the coins appear to be identical, each featuring an eight-pointed star and an inscription in Aramaic that reads, “King Alexander ...

A subsequent excavation by the authorities exhumed approximately 2,940 coins and over 200 thin silver fragments decorated with geometric designs, all buried inside a broken ceramic vessel hidden ...