An ancient collection that was recently given to Israel’s Haifa University allows researchers a unique opportunity to see how the region was portrayed in maps by European scholars.

In Qiryat Gat, Israel, in what's now largely an industrial park, this 1,500-year-old mosaic shows a map of buildings and streets. "The appearance of buildings on mosaic floors is a rare phenomenon ...

The artifact, originally printed in black and white and colored just a few years later, is part of the collection of ancient maps and illustrations of Jerusalem and the land of Israel and of books ...

A map of Israel by Reverend Heinrich Binting (photo ... A 17th-century map of ancient Jerusalem (credit: UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA/UMANSKY COLLECTION) One of the maps in the collection is a Dutch ...

The term "ancient Israel" is used by scholars to ... King David then led a series of military campaigns that made Israel a powerful kingdom centered at Jerusalem, according to the Hebrew Bible.

The ancient farmsteaders may have ... will deliver freshwater to farmland in Israel and neighboring countries. Before the rise of the Hasmonean Kingdom, the Seleucids ruled the southern Jewish ...

Looking at the broader historical context of the Levant in the mid-ninth century B.C.E., a more parsimonious explanation emerges. This period was marked by the rise of the Kingdom of Israel under ...

The map, published on its Arabic-language social media account, depicts what it claims to be the ancient Kingdom of Israel.

But that single word could lead experts to rethink their views on the territory of the ancient Kingdom of Israel, according to the report. Abel Beth Maacah, mentioned in the bible, is located just ...

During the 9th century B.C., the ancient town was situated in a liminal zone between three regional powers: the Aramean kingdom based ... between Aram-Damascus and Israel,” said Hebrew ...