3,700-year-old colossal wall uncovered in Jerusalem

September 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Archaeologists have discovered one of the world's oldest synagogues in Northern Israel, dating back to some 2000 years from 50BC to 100 AD. According to a report by the CNN, the site was unearthed at the site of a new 122-room hotel near the Sea of Galilee.

September 11th, 2009 Archaeologists find early depiction of a menorahJERUSALEM — Israeli archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest depictions of a menorah, the seven-branched candelabra that has come to symbolize Judaism, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Friday. The menorah was engraved in stone around 2,000 years ago and found in a synagogue recently discovered by the Sea of Galilee.

September 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Italian archaeologists have unearthed a 1st century A.D. colossal statue of Apollo, the Greek god of the sun, light, music and poetry, from white calcified cliffs in southwestern Turkey.

August 26th, 2009 BERLIN - Archaeologists have discovered fragments of a 2,000-year-old bronze Roman equestrian statue of Emperor Augustus in a stream near Giessen in Germany. According to a report in The Local, on August 12, archaeologists pulled the gold-gilded, life-sized head of a horse and a shoe of the emperor - who ruled the Roman Empire between 23 BC and 14 AD from a stream in what was once the Roman outpost Germania Magna.

August 21st, 2009 JERUSALEM - Archaeologists have found a cache of three figurines of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, dating back about 1,500 years, in the southern Golan Heights site of Susita, in Israel. According to a report in the online edition of the Haaretz newspaper, the figurines, made of clay, and are about 30 centimeters tall, depict the nude goddess standing, with her right hand covering her private parts - a type of statue scholars call "modest Venus." The figurines at Susita were unearthed in the excavations of the University of Haifa's Zinman Institute of Archaeology, now in its 10th season, headed by Professor Arthur Segal and Dr.

August 18th, 2009 JERUSALEM - An Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) excavation in the City of David, Israel, has revealed a large third century CE building, which is apparently a large mansion. The spacious edifice from the Roman period (third century CE) - apparently a mansion that belonged to a wealthy individual, was uncovered in excavations carried out in the 'Givati Car Park' at the City of David, in the Walls Around Jerusalem National Park.

July 31st, 2009 JERUSALEM - A team of archaeologists has found a unique Aramaic inscription on a stone cup commonly used for ritual purity during the first century, in a dig on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. According to a report in Jerusalem Post, the six-week excavation is being carried out within the Gan Sobev Homot Yerushalayim national park, close to the Zion Gate of the Old City.

July 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A unique religious shrine to a Roman god has been uncovered at a fort along Hadrian's Wall in England. Hadrian's Wall is a stone and turf fortification built by the Roman Empire across the width of what is now northern England.

July 6th, 2009 Israeli archaeologists discover ancient quarryJERUSALEM — Israeli archaeologists have uncovered an ancient quarry where they believe King Herod extracted stones for the construction of the Jewish Temple 2,000 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Monday. The archaeologists believe the 1,000-square-foot (100-square-meter) quarry was part of a much larger network of quarries used by Herod in the city.

June 24th, 2009 SOFIA - A team of archaeologists has uncovered an intact Thracian settlement close to the southeast town of Nova Zagora in Bulgaria. According to a report in novinite.com, the team comprised of Konstantin Gospodinov and Veselin Ignatov from the city of Burgas, who hope that their finding would be the first Thracian settlement to be uncovered in its entirety.

June 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - An archaeologist, along with his team, is searching for Afghanistan's third giant Buddha statue, one which is reclining and is believed to stretch 1,000 feet (300 meters) long underground. According to a report in National Geographic Magazine, the archaeologist in question is Zemaryalai Tarzi, who was Afghanistan's Director of Archaeology in the 1970s.

June 5th, 2009 SYDNEY - Massive volcanic eruptions in ancient times triggered rapid climate change and mass extinctions, by ejecting colossal volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. We have carefully dated minerals contained in the volcanic rocks and shown that only the fastest sequences of eruptions caused significant species extinctions, said Fred Jourdan of Curtin University, Australia.

April 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of archaeologists has discovered artifacts that date from 3700 B.C. to 600 A.D., during a three-month dig at Miraflores Park, east of Brackenridge Park, in San Antonio, Texas.

March 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A tunnel network has been uncovered beneath the historic heart of the Maltese capital of Valletta, which according to rumors, had been constructed by the crusading Knights of the island of Malta. According to a report in National Geographic News, the newfound tunnels date back to the 16th and early 17th centuries, when the knights-one of the major Christian military orders of the 11th- to 13th-century Crusades-fortified Valletta against Muslim attack.

March 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - As the Euphrates River dries up in Iraq's western Anbar province, ancient buildings are emerging from the river bed, which archaeologists can now access for the first time. According to a report by NPR (National Public Radio), the receding waters of the Euphrates River have revealed ancient archaeological sites, some of which were unknown until now.