There are endless possibilities. But when three-year-old Ziv Nitzan was out walking with her family near Tel Azekah in central Israel, she picked up something far more unusual: a 3,800-year-old ...

This unlikely experience, which sounds like the setup to a movie, actually happened to a family during a trip to Tel Azekah, near Beit Shemesh, Israel. “We were walking along the path ...

Lipschits offered an explanation. In 1898, two British archaeologists began excavating Tel Azekah — one of the first biblical sites to be exhumed in Israel — where they found an acropolis ...

As an archaeologist, I understand that the darkened layer left when fire sweeps through a city draws a sharp line in time ...

The family brought in the Israel Antiquities Authority ... that during the Middle Bronze and Late Bronze ages, here in Tel Azekah, thrived one of the most important cities in the Judean lowlands.

The family brought in the Israel Antiquities Authority ... “and the excavation findings show that during the Middle Bronze and Late Bronze ages, here in Tel Azekah, thrived one of the most important ...

As an archaeologist, I understand that the darkened layer left when fire sweeps through a city draws a sharp line in time between before and after.

For me it was at Tel Halif, in southern Israel. I was crouching in a hole ... the outlines of the house’s upper stories. At Tel Azekah, another Israeli site, Carly once excavated the skeleton ...