The coins depict Alexander Jannaeus, who was king of Judaea from 103 B.C. to 76 B.C. Jannaeus, a Jewish leader of the Hasmonean dynasty, predated the destruction of the Second Temple, which was a ...
The ancient route led to the Alexandrion Fortress thousands of years ago; an outpost erected during the Hasmonean period in the first century B.C. The coins were discovered on grounds which ...
A coin hoard dating back about 2,100 years, during the time of the Jewish Hasmonean kings, has been discovered at a site in the Jordan Valley. A 2,100-year-old hoard of 160 coins has been ...
Researchers unearthed 160 coins belonging to the second king of the Hasmonean dynasty from a Hanukkah-era excavation (photo credit: DR. SHAY BAR) Researchers unearthed 160 coins belonging to the ...
In what they called an “archaeological Hanukkah miracle,” a University of Haifa team discovered on Friday a rare hoard of some 160 coins, dating from the Hasmonean period, during a dig in the ...
Researchers at University of Haifa’s Zinman Institute of Archaeology uncovered a rare hoard of coins that belonged to King Alexander Jannaeus, the second king of the Hasmonean dynasty ...
Deputy Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen. Amir Baram, at the lighting of a Hanukkah candle in the ultra-Orthodox Hasmonean Brigade (IDF) IDF deputy chief of staff Maj.-Gen. Amir Baram told haredi (ultra ...
Researchers at the University of Haifa’s Zinman Institute of Archaeology have uncovered a rare hoard of coins belonging to King Alexander Jannaeus, the second ruler of the Hasmonean dynasty ...