The work of the archaeology patrol unit is typically uneventful, some have even used the word boring to describe the role that requires employees to drive from one archaeological site to another seeking out anything out of the ordinary. Given the fact that Judea and Samaria are particularly rich with biblical era sites, there are a lot of places to scope out, but rarely is anything amiss. That changed earlier this week near the Tel Dotan area in northern Samaria, when the patrol came across two thieves trying to rob the ancient cemetery of Tel Dotan just a few miles south of the Palestinian Authority-run city of Jenin.

13 January 2023

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A church, with spectacular mosaic floors preserved from the Byzantine period, was uncovered by the Archeology Unit in the Civil Administration near the ancient city of Jericho. The Civil Administration, which is legally responsible for most excavations within Judea and Samaria, said that the church was probably established during the 6th century AD, and continued to exist even during the early Muslim period.

12 January 2023

Read more: Byzantine Era Church That Survived Muslim Destruction Found Near Jericho

One of the things academics use to try and discredit the bible is the reliance on silver by the pre-Israel Israelites. In Genesis, it is written that Jacob came to Shechem (today's Nablus) and paid 100 pieces of silver for a plot of land, the same land where it is believed Josephs's tomb lies. The problem was there was no evidence that the precious metal was used in Canaan and only came into the land 400-600 years later. However, new research shreds that theory as it appears the Canaanites did in fact deal in Silver.

08 January 2023

Read more: Proving The Bible: Archaeologists Reveal Silver Was Used As Currency In Canaan

On June 13, 1938, Irma Bundy sold four fossils to the Natural History Museum of Vienna. The two oysters and the two ammonites from the Cretaceous period dating from 145 million years before humans to 66 million years before were given to her as a gift by a relative, Fritz Illner. Illner worked as an engineer near the town of Kastamonu in Turkey, in the valley about 38 km south of the Black Sea coast.

08 January 2023

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The Israeli Antiquities Authority, the Nature and Parks Authority, and the Elad Association for the City of David announced Tuesday the opening of the excavation project of the ancient reservoir in Jerusalem.

27 December 2022

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