A 2,800-year-old inscribed stone altar, found within a Moabite sanctuary in the ancient city of Ataroth in Jordan, may shed light on an ancient biblical war. The altar bears two inscriptions. The ...

What a terrific idea – walking the land of Israel with Bible in hand, to discover the stories within and bring them to life. It’s not an original idea, dating back to Middle Ages Jewish travellers and ...

The site is not fenced off. Nor are there any signs denoting that this pile of rocks thousands of years ago served as an altar where Joshua sacrificed animals to God. Unlike the Western Wall or the ...

The researcher, Zvi Koenigsberg, who assisted Zertal in the excavations at the Joshua altar from 1982 to 1988, described the process of finding the amulet. An ancient Hebrew amulet has been found ...

“And it will be, when the Lord, your God, will bring you to the land to which you come, to possess it, that you shall place those blessing upon Mount Gerizim, and those cursing upon Mount Ebal ...

The "The Forum for the Struggle for Every Dunam" visited the Biblical Altar of Joshua on Mt. Ebal and found that over the past few days, the altar has been vandalized by residents of nearby villages ...

The Samaria Regional Council will for the first time hold the traditional Samaria march to the biblical altar of Joshua. The march will take place on the second day of Sukkot. Also, for the first time ...

A LONG-LIST medieval altar thought to be destroyed in a fire has been discovered at one the holiest Christian churches in the world. Construction workers made the sensational discovery at a church in ...

The Book of Joshua, found in the Bible, tells of how one of Moses’ assistants who built an altar of stones where the Israelites made peace offerings. Much later in the book, when Joshua was old and ...