These artifacts date back to the First Temple period (1200 to 586 B.C.) of ancient Israel, suggesting ritual and cultic practices took place close to the First Temple — the first Jewish temple ...

A mass grave in the Negev excavated by the Israel Antiquities Authority sheds light on funerary, divination, and commercial practices in the first millennium BCE ...

Archaeologists in the Netherlands uncovered a rare 7th-century open-air cult site near the hamlet of Hezingen. The discovery ...

excavation director Eli Shukron suggests that the structure served as a site for cultic or religious practices used by the people of Judah (Evidence of Worship in the Rock-Cut Rooms on the Eastern ...

Excavation of a 2,500-year-old burial site revealed tombs of trade caravans from Yemen, Phoenicia and Egypt that traveled through the Land of Israel.

The great variety of finds are evidence that this previously unknown site was a place of burial for trade caravans during that period and burial and cultic practices took place here.” ...

An early medieval archeological site in the eastern Netherlands likely hosted cult rituals involving the “devil’s money.” But ...

It is the only known ritual structure from this period discovered ... that the structure was used by the residents of Judah for cultic/religious practice. This exceptional structure, dating ...