Massive Sarcophagus Depicting 'Drinking Contest' Between Hercules and Dionysus Unearthed in Israel The Israel Antiquities ...

This sarcophagus offers an unusual perspective of the idea of death—not as an end, but as the beginning of a new path.” ...

Archaeologists believe that a wealthy family that enjoyed a rousing lifestyle commissioned the piece to reflect their ...

In a discovery hailed as the “first of its kind,” archaeologists in Israel have found a Roman marble sarcophagus which ...

Israeli archaeologists working at a site outside of Caesarea uncovered an exquisitely carved marble sarcophagus that had been ...

Archaeologists say the marble coffin is the first of its kind found in the region. The story it depicts is more often seen in mosaics ...

The 1,700-year-old marble sarcophagus bears a mythological scene of Dionysus and Heracles in a drinking contest.

according to a statement released by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). The so-called Be’er Shema (Birsama) mosaic was first uncovered three decades ago near Khirbat Be’er Shema in the ...

But Ziv is the youngest child known to have discovered an ancient artifact in Israel, said Yoli Schwartz, a spokeswoman for the antiquities authority, who called the find “very exciting.” ...

Ziv had accidentally unearthed a 3,800-year-old amulet, from the Middle Bronze Age, a period spanning from about 2100 to 1600 B.C.E., the Israel Antiquities Authority said Tuesday. The tiny ornate ...

Ziv Nitzan, from Moshav Ramot Meir, found the amulet during a trip to Tel Azeka, near Beit Shemesh, said the Israel Antiquities Authority on Tuesday morning. It turns out the amulet is 3,800 years ...

The family then brought the find to the attention of the antiquities authority. Daphna Ben-Tor, a curator for Egyptian archaeology at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem whose expertise involves ...