Archaeology

Archaeology

The Institute of Archaeology is Israel’s oldest university archaeology department.

• Discovery of an ancient city in Israel that could challenge Biblical foundations about Jerusalem and the kingdom of David
• Uncovering the long-sought-after remains of King Herod’s tomb at a burial site on Mount Herodium at the edge of the Judean desert
• Finding the ruins of a 2nd century, BCE Roman temple at Israel’s Zippori National Park
• HU excavations finding the earliest beehives, revealing that Israel truly is the "land of milk and honey"
• Determining that man’s abilty to make fire a millennia ago was likely a factor in human migration
  

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