An archaeologist has recently uncovered a fortified wall in the ancient city of Lachish, a discovery he said shores up the biblical account of the site and suggests that a centralized kingdom ruled by ...

Tel Lachish was known as an important fortified city that was second only to Jerusalem in the Kingdom of Judea. The lowlands of Judea, the region known in Hebrew as Hashfela, were very active with ...

(JNS) Israel boasts one of the most varied and developed national park systems in the world. Though a country that could fit into Lake Michigan with room to spare, visitors will find no fewer than 57 ...

Archaeologists uncovered how King Sennacherib’s army built the massive siege ramp that allowed them to defeat the city some 2,700 years ago. About 2,700 years ago, Assyrian King Sennacherib conquered ...

View of the western gate at Khirbet Qeiyafa, excavated under the direction of Yosef Garfinkel. Yaels, Wikimedia Commons. According to the Biblical account, the ancient fortified city of Lachish was ...

More than 45 illegal infiltrators, including women and children, entered Israel on Wednesday evening through a breach in the seam line fence east of Lachish. This is the most significant infiltration ...

Sandra Metzger writes to ask: “Would you possibly know of an ancient battle that sounds like ‘Lekesh’ but is spelled differently? I read about it 20 years ago in a book on archaeology and the Bible, ...

The Lachish relief depicts the Assyrian army laying siege in 701 BC to the town of Lachish, about 40 kilometres from Jerusalem. Soldiers storm the town walls while prisoners are marched out of the ...

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