Excavation directors called the discovery, during groundwork for a new highway off-ramp, the “Early Bronze Age New York” of the region.
The first major museum exhibition on the divisive biblical figure of Herod the Great has provoked a modern-day row between Israel and the Palestinians over who has the right to dig up his artefacts.
Jewelry, coins and metal utensils found in a 19th century Lithuanian fort are mementos of a lost community. The artifacts were left behind by some 4,000 Jews who were murdered in 1941.