Assaf Avraham

Assaf Avraham is pursuing a doctorate in archaeology and Land of Israel studies at Bar Ilan University. He has directed the Israel Natural Parks Authority's Jerusalem City Walls National Park, and served as chief archeologist and director of the Temple Mount Sifting Project
Archaeologists’ efforts have unearthed entire towns dating back centuries and millennia. Will they now be permanently destroyed? Roman pillars in Sebastia, in northern Israel

History Obliterated

Irreversible damage is being inflicted on Judea and Samaria’s archaeological sites, as authorities on both the Israeli...

Herod the Great: The King’s Final Journey, a 2013 exhibition at the Israel Museum, showcased the monumentality and opulence of Herod’s building projects, including this reconstruction of an opus sectile floor

Paving the Past

If Jewish sources are anything to go by, Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem was one of the most magnificent edifices ever...

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