Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. Researchers from the University of Haifa have announced the discovery of a rare hoard ...

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 ...

A team of archaeologists from the University of Haifa discovered a rare hoard of approximately 160 coins during an excavation in the Jordan Valley, dating back to the Hasmonean period, which they ...

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 ...

Jannaeus (whose Hebrew name was Jonathan, as revealed in historical records and confirmed by numismatic evidence) was descended from a lineage of revolutionary Hasmonean leaders. He was the son of ...

An archaeological find has brought new light to the Hasmonean era, with researchers discovering a hoard of 160 coins over 1,900 years old during Chanukah, the University of Haifa announced. The coins, ...

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 ...

A remarkable archaeological discovery emerged in the Jordan Valley during this year’s Chanukah festival: a cache of coins minted under King of Judea Alexander Jannaeus, a significant ruler of the ...

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 ...