Kishkushim خربطات קישקושים

Excellent review by Simon Schama of Shlomo Sand's The Invention of the Jewish People , which has now been translated into English.

I was disappointed to find no word of the whereabouts of a huge hoard of early (?) Hellenistic coins found near Rafah in January in this rec...

The (descendants of the) guys who gave you Hanukah apparently ruled over a larger area of the Land of Israel than historians have long assum...

Construction in Maaleh Hazeitim (Photo: cnn.com ) BY NOAH K. This may seem like utter trivia, pure kishkushim just one day after Bibi met O...

I have recently waded into the murky waters of the history of piracy in the Greco-Roman world. As a participant in a graduate seminar here a...

Coin of Herod the Great as seen tonight on Ebay going for $9.95 before tax and shipping. The current issue of National Geographic spotlight...

What makes an empire great? What makes it really great – more durable and expansive than its rivals? What makes an empire a “hyper power,” t...

Something new to quarrel about. (Image: Princeton Univ. Press ) Princeton University Prof. Peter Schaefer has written a new book called ...

UNESCO's HQ in Paris The report of UNESCO's investigation of Israeli excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem was published Wednesda...

For the past few days, the authors of this blog have been involved in a low-intensity dispute over one of the Old City of Jerusalem's ma...

The course of politically sensitive excavations in the City of David. I think that I have finally arrived at a clear picture of the politico...

The Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa (July 2006) The Israel Antiquities Authority now has a live web camera on its website which broadcasts vie...

Al Aqsa from behind the wall (Summer 2006) ADDENDUM: I wrote the post below before the riots that erupted on the Temple Mount on Friday. P...