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In an Israeli warehouse, clues about Jesus' life and death
BEIT SHEMESH, Israel (AP) — In a cavernous warehouse where Israel stores its archaeological treasures, an ancient burial box is inscribed with the name of Jesus. Not THAT Jesus. Archaeologists in Israel say Jesus was a common name in the Holy Land 2...
In Israel, teaching kids cyber skills is a national mission
BEIT SHEMESH, Israel (AP) — In some Israeli schools, fourth-graders learn computer programming while gifted 10th-graders take after-school classes in encryption tactics, coding and how to stop malicious hacking. The country even has two new k...
Israel to launch expedition to find more Dead Sea Scrolls
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is embarking on a major archaeological expedition to find yet undiscovered Dead Sea Scrolls, an Israeli antiquities official said Monday. Amir Ganor of the Israel Antiquities Authority said a government research team will s...
Scanning software deciphers ancient biblical scroll
JERUSALEM (AP, posted Sept. 21, 2016) — The charred lump of a 2,000-year-old scroll sat in an Israeli archaeologist's storeroom for decades, too brittle to open. Now, new imaging technology has revealed what was written inside: the earliest e...
