An Exploration in Early Pastoral Nomadism - Details excavations at the Camel site and explores potentials for an archaeology of pastoralism. - http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/backdirt/Spr00/rosen.html
Ancient Jewish Bread Stamp Found Near Haifa - Jerusalem Post reports the discovery of a unique stamp with the word "shvi'it," (seventh) which may have been used to mark loaves in a sabbatical year. - http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/12/25/News/News.17906.html
Archaeologists Uncover 12,000-year-old Settlement - Article from the Age reporting the discovery of a 12,000-year-old neolithic settlement west of Jerusalem. - http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/01/1059480520876.html
The Yaqush Project - Brief description of work at this Early Bronze Age site in the upper Jordan Valley. - http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/YAQ/Yaqush.html
Tel Dan - History and archaeology of the northernmost area of Israel. - http://www.campsci.com/iguide/tel_dan.htm
Strange Skulls - In a dry region southwest of the Dead Sea, Neolithic peoples at Nahal Hemar Cave stashed stone masks, jewelry, shells, and skulls decorated with thick black glue. - http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1511/n2_v19/20159522/print.jhtml
Second Temple Synagogues - Donald D. Binder's study of synagogues built before A.D. 70. Texts, illustrations, plans, and descriptions. - http://www.pohick.org/sts/
Nahal Tillah Regional Archaeology Project in Israel - The University of California at San Diego examines the role of early Egyptian civilization in the rise of urban communities in the southern Levant. Aims, staff, publications. - http://weber.ucsd.edu/Depts/Anthro/classes/tlevy/Tillah/
King David's Tomb - Provides some historical dates, a virtual museum tour, and descriptions and illustrations of artifacts. - http://www.davidstomb.com/
Herodian - Brief article by Jay Levinson in The Jewish Magazine describes this fortified palace located 15 kilometers south of Yerushalayim. With photos. - http://www.jewishmag.com/93mag/herodian/herodian.htm
Cave of the Warrior, Wadi el-Makkukh - An exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History 1998: includes illustrated description of artifacts found. - http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/cave/index.html
Archeological Sites in Israel - An illustrated gazetteer from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. - http://www.israel.org/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0dpk0
The Roman Boat from the Sea of Galilee - The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs describes the discovery in 1986 of a boat constructed and used between 100 BCE and 70 CE. - http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH00uv0
Beit She'arim - The Jewish Necropolis of the Roman Period - An illustrated description from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs of this town founded in the reign of King Herod, with its many tombs and catacombs. - http://www.israel.org/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0ie10
Ritmeyer Archaeological Design - Focuses on the Temple Mount and Jerusalem. Offers research, books, posters, CD-ROM's and models on the subject of Jerusalem and Biblical Archaeology. - http://www.adam.com.au/ritmeyer/
The James Ossuary and the BAR - Lecture by Oded Golan at Cornerstone University, Grand Rapids, Michigan; April 2004. - http://www.bib-arch.org/bswbOOossuary_Golan_Cornerstone.pdf
The Ossuary and Inscription Are Authentic - A paper by André Lemaire, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris-Sorbonne and presented in Grand Rapids, Michigan; 21 April 2004. - http://www.bib-arch.org/bswbOOossuary_Lemaire.pdf
Inscriptions from the Land of Israel Peoject - Seeks to collect and make accessible over the Web all of the previously published inscriptions (and their English translations) from the Land of Israel from the Persian period through the Islamic conquest (ca. 500 BCE - 640 CE). - http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/Inscriptions/
Tel Quasile - A Late bronze Age and Philistine site in Tel Aviv. - http://www.jewishmag.com/23MAG/ARCH/arch.htm
Farming Origins Gain 10,000 Years - Brief article from the BBC News about principal plant foods eaten by the people at Ohalo. - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3826731.stm
Early Man Had Mining in Mind - From Nature, an Israeli research team has caught our ancestors in the act of learning to mine raw materials for tools. - http://www.nature.com/nsu/040517/040517-4.html
Report on the Zoilos Votive Inscription - Pre-publication information on the stone tablets unearthed by archaeologists at the Tel-Dan site. - http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/orion/programs/Altman/Altman00.shtml
Earliest Fire Sheds Light on Hominids - Nature article on ancient hearths unearthed in Israel considered to be nearly 800 millennia old. - http://www.nature.com/nsu/040426/040426-16.html
Scarlet Symbols Emerge in Israeli Cave - From Science News. Lumps of red ocher excavated near human graves in an Israeli cave indicate that symbolic thinking occurred at least 90,000 years ago, much earlier than archaeologists have traditionally assumed. - http://www.sciencenews.org/20031101/fob6.asp
Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science - Statement, goals, and contact information for the academic department. - http://www.weizmann.ac.il/kimmel-arch/home.html
When Golan Worshipers Faced South - Ha'aretz article about the placement of the historic Golan Heights Ark. - http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=321013
Jewish Yad Avshalom Revealed - Ha'aretz article on fourth-century inscriptions on one of the walls near the monument. - http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=320531
From Archaeology to Archaeometry and Back - Describes the work of Hebrew University professor Jan Gunneweg on the archaeology of Israel and the eastern Mediterranean. - http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msjan/archaeom.html
Archaeology at the Israel Museum - This museum in Jerusalem provides online exhibitions and an illustrated catalog of its collections from prehistory until the thirteenth century. - http://www.imj.org.il/eng/archaeology/index.html
Israel Antiquities Authority - The official site explains its services and policy. Also examples of the country's rich archaeological heritage, news, exhibitions and publications. - http://www.israntique.org.il/