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More than 2,000 years ago, the trade of Dead Sea bitumen and salt was thriving in the Levant. Delivering them from source to market required a long and potentially hazardous journey through the Judean ...

First published in 2014, and now available in paperback, this study by Prof. Kosmin (Harvard) takes a look at the Seleucid Kingdom, which came closest to reviving Alexander’s empire. Ptolemaic Egypt ...

A pyramidal structure that is thought to date back 2,200 years has been unearthed by archaeologists in the Judean Desert. The mysterious structure, along with a number of artifacts, were found in a ...