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Herodian
http://www.jewishmag.com/93mag/herodian/herodian.htm
Brief article by Jay Levinson in The Jewish Magazine describes this fortified palace located 15 kilometers south of Yerushalayim. With photos.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology
http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/english/units.php?cat=815&incat=0
Describes academic programs, staff, excavation, research projects, library and collections.
From Archaeology to Archaeometry and Back
http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msjan/archaeom.html
Describes the work of Hebrew University professor Jan Gunneweg on the archaeology of Israel and the eastern Mediterranean.
Farming Origins Gain 10,000 Years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3826731.stm
Brief article from the BBC News about principal plant foods eaten by the people at Ohalo.
Early Man Had Mining in Mind
http://www.nature.com/nsu/040517/040517-4.html
From Nature, an Israeli research team has caught our ancestors in the act of learning to mine raw materials for tools.
Earliest Fire Sheds Light on Hominids
http://www.nature.com/nsu/040426/040426-16.html
Nature article on ancient hearths unearthed in Israel considered to be nearly 800 millennia old.
Cave of the Warrior, Wadi el-Makkukh
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/cave/index.html
An exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History 1998: includes illustrated description of artifacts found.
Bibliography of Archaeological Excavations in the Southern Levant
http://library.weber.edu/cm/wkotter/baesl.cfm?bhcp=1
Database of scholarly literature from Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan.
Beit She'arim: The Jewish Necropolis of the Roman Period
An illustrated description from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs of this town founded in the reign of King Herod, with its many tombs and catacombs.
Archeological Sites in Israel
An illustrated gazetteer from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Archaeology at the Israel Museum
http://www.imj.org.il/eng/archaeology/index.html
This museum in Jerusalem provides online exhibitions and an illustrated catalog of its collections from prehistory until the thirteenth century.
Archaeologists Uncover 12,000-year-old Settlement
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/01/1059480520876.html
Article from the Age reporting the discovery of a 12,000-year-old neolithic settlement west of Jerusalem.
An Exploration in Early Pastoral Nomadism
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/backdirt/Spr00/rosen.html
Details excavations at the Camel site and explores potentials for an archaeology of pastoralism.