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-800000
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- 500000 BCE :
  Flints Galore
-500000
- 500000 BCE :
  Flints Galore
-400000
-300000
-200000
-100000
- 60000 BCE :
  Not Just Cave Dwellers
- 20000 BCE :
  Rhinos in Samaria
- 7000 BCE :
  Masking Death Prehistoric City
- 3000 BCE :
  What would you like, Egyptian or Philistine ?
- 2000 BCE :
  4,000 Year Old Jerusalem Tomb: a Treasure Trove of Decapitated Toads
- 1150 BCE :
  Where did the Philistines come from?
- 1100 BCE :
  Is This Ziklag?
- 1000 BCE :
  Babylonian Deluge
- 800 BCE :
  Horses in the rain Ruin of Samaria!
- 750 BCE :
  Which Isaiah? How many clerks ?
- 650 BCE :
  Temple Off the Mount
- 590 BCE :
  Stamped by the Mayor
- 586 BCE :
  Signs of Destruction
- 516 BCE :
  Who are You, Samaritans?
- 480 BCE :
  Esther – the Persian Version
- 460 BCE :
  Nehemiah on the Wall
- 200 BCE :
  Forgotten Archive
- 167 BCE :
  A Brief History of the Hasmoneans
- 164 BCE :
  Pools and Palaces
- 160 BCE :
  Fighting for Heart and Soul The Youngest Maccabee
- 150 BCE :
  Telltale Tremor
- 141 BCE :
  Cast a Giant Shadow
- 110 BCE :
  A Dig Full of Holes
- 100 BCE :
  אוצר ממצולות ים Anonymous Hasmonean
- 20 BCE :
  Mystery of Caesarea’s Disappearing Port Jerusalem Potters
- 18 BCE :
  Paving the Past
- 0 BCE :
  Nabateans in the Bible Lords of the Desert Pilgrim City
0
100000
200000

-5000
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-4920
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-4800

-4780
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-4720
-4700
-4680
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-4600
-4580

-4560
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-4520
-4500
-4480
-4460
-4440
-4420
-4400
-4380
-4360

-4340
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-4300
-4280
-4260
-4240
-4220
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-4180
-4160
-4140

-4120
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-4080
-4060
-4040
-4020
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-3980
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-3920

-3900
-3880
-3860
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-3700

-3680
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-3480

-3460
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-3260

-3240
-3220
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-3180
-3160
-3140
-3120
-3100
-3080
-3060
-3040

-3020
- 3000 BCE :
  What would you like, Egyptian or Philistine ?
-3000
- 3000 BCE :
  What would you like, Egyptian or Philistine ?
-2980
-2960
-2940
-2920
-2900
-2880
-2860
-2840
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-2800
-2780
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-2740
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-2580
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-2380

-2360
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-2240
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-2140
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-2080
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-2020
- 2000 BCE :
  4,000 Year Old Jerusalem Tomb: a Treasure Trove of Decapitated Toads
-2000
- 2000 BCE :
  4,000 Year Old Jerusalem Tomb: a Treasure Trove of Decapitated Toads
-1980
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-1480
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-1280

-1260
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- 1150 BCE :
  Where did the Philistines come from?
-1140
-1120
- 1100 BCE :
  Is This Ziklag?
-1100
- 1100 BCE :
  Is This Ziklag?
-1080
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-1040
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- 1000 BCE :
  Babylonian Deluge
-1000
- 1000 BCE :
  Babylonian Deluge
-980
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-820
- 800 BCE :
  Horses in the rain Ruin of Samaria!
-800
- 800 BCE :
  Horses in the rain Ruin of Samaria!
-780
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- 750 BCE :
  Which Isaiah? How many clerks ?
-740
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- 650 BCE :
  Temple Off the Mount
-640
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-600
- 590 BCE :
  Stamped by the Mayor
- 586 BCE :
  Signs of Destruction
-580
-560
-540
-520
- 516 BCE :
  Who are You, Samaritans?
-500
- 480 BCE :
  Esther – the Persian Version
-480
- 480 BCE :
  Esther – the Persian Version
- 460 BCE :
  Nehemiah on the Wall
-460
- 460 BCE :
  Nehemiah on the Wall
-440
-420
-400

-380
-360
-340
-320
-300
-280
-260
-240
-220
- 200 BCE :
  Forgotten Archive
-200
- 200 BCE :
  Forgotten Archive
-180
- 167 BCE :
  A Brief History of the Hasmoneans
- 164 BCE :
  Pools and Palaces
- 160 BCE :
  Fighting for Heart and Soul The Youngest Maccabee

-160
- 160 BCE :
  Fighting for Heart and Soul The Youngest Maccabee
- 150 BCE :
  Telltale Tremor
- 141 BCE :
  Cast a Giant Shadow
-140
-120
- 110 BCE :
  A Dig Full of Holes
- 100 BCE :
  אוצר ממצולות ים Anonymous Hasmonean
-100
- 100 BCE :
  אוצר ממצולות ים Anonymous Hasmonean
-80
-60
-40
- 20 BCE :
  Mystery of Caesarea’s Disappearing Port Jerusalem Potters
-20
- 20 BCE :
  Mystery of Caesarea’s Disappearing Port Jerusalem Potters
- 18 BCE :
  Paving the Past
- 0 BCE :
  Nabateans in the Bible Lords of the Desert Pilgrim City
0
20
- 40 CE :
  Wanton Destruction on a Calamitous Scale Golden Nostalgia
40
- 40 CE :
  Wanton Destruction on a Calamitous Scale Golden Nostalgia
- 44 CE :
  King’s Canopy in Shilo

60
- 62 CE :
  The Pilgrims’ Progress
- 66 CE :
  Don’t Call Me Joseph Dead Sea DNA
- 67 CE :
  Romans on the Roofs of Gamla
80
100
120
- 130 CE :
  Backs to the Western Wall
- 132 CE :
  Bar Kokhba in Jerusalem
140
160
180
- 200 CE :
  Bathing Rabbis
200
- 200 CE :
  Bathing Rabbis
220
240
- 250 CE :
  Trio in Togas
260

280
- 300 CE :
  Washed Out by the Rain
300
- 300 CE :
  Washed Out by the Rain
320
340
- 350 CE :
  זה השער
360
380
- 400 CE :
  Blessed Wine
400
- 400 CE :
  Blessed Wine
420
440
460
480
- 500 CE :
  Shofar – Blasting Away Pilgrims’ Riches Playing with Water? Byzantine Cistern in Jerusalem Playground

400
- 400 CE :
  Blessed Wine
410
420
430
440
450
460
470
480
490
- 500 CE :
  Shofar – Blasting Away Pilgrims’ Riches Playing with Water? Byzantine Cistern in Jerusalem Playground
500
- 500 CE :
  Shofar – Blasting Away Pilgrims’ Riches Playing with Water? Byzantine Cistern in Jerusalem Playground

510
520
530
- 539 CE :
  Georgians in Ashdod
540
550
560
570
580
590
600
610

620
- 630 CE :
  The Fire of Faith
630
- 630 CE :
  The Fire of Faith
640
650
660
670
680
690
700
710
- 717 CE :
  What’s a Jewish Menorah doing on early Islamic coins and vessels ?
720

730
740
750
760
770
780
790
- 800 CE :
  Whose Head is it Anyway? Potter’s Treasure
800
- 800 CE :
  Whose Head is it Anyway? Potter’s Treasure
810
820
830

840
850
860
870
880
890
900
910
920
930
940
- 950 CE :
  Cave of Revenge

950
- 950 CE :
  Cave of Revenge
960
970
980
990
1000
1010
1020
1030
1040
1050

1060
1070
1080
1090
- 1096 CE :
  Heroes on the Walls of Haifa
- 1099 CE :
  Heroes on the Walls of Haifa
1100
1110
1120
1130
1140
1150
1160

1170
1180
- 1187 CE :
  Locking Horns at the Battle of Hattin
1190
1200
1210
1220
1230
1240
1250
1260
1270
- 1280 CE :
  Z-rated: For Forties Plus

1280
- 1280 CE :
  Z-rated: For Forties Plus
- 1286 CE :
  Mystery of the Zohar Zohar Unzipped
1290
- 1300 CE :
  Ancient Ring in the Flowerbed
1300
- 1300 CE :
  Ancient Ring in the Flowerbed
1310
1320
1330
1340
1350
- 1354 CE :
  Ready for Elijah
1360
1370
1380
- 1390 CE :
  Divinely Plagued

1390
- 1390 CE :
  Divinely Plagued
1400
1410
1420
1430
1440
1450
1460
1470
- 1475 CE :
  A Widow in Print
1480
1490
- 1496 CE :
  Once Bitten, Twice Shy – Portuguese Jewry

1500
- 1501 CE :
  Portuguese Messiah at the Stake
1510
- 1520 CE :
  Salonika’s Mystic Quartet
1520
- 1520 CE :
  Salonika’s Mystic Quartet
- 1526 CE :
  Who Was David Ha-Reuveni?
1530
- 1533 CE :
  Kabbalists in Salonika
1540
1550
1560
1570
1580
1590
1600

1610
1620
- 1630 CE :
  The Price of Dissent
1630
- 1630 CE :
  The Price of Dissent
1640
1650
1660
- 1667 CE :
  Was ‘The Jewish Bride’ Really Jewish? Messianic Mania
1670
- 1675 CE :
  Topsy Turvy
1680
1690
- 1700 CE :
  Newton’s Fourth Law In the Service of the Czar Haman’s Pockets Trying to Belong
1700
- 1700 CE :
  Newton’s Fourth Law In the Service of the Czar Haman’s Pockets Trying to Belong
1710

1720
1730
1740
1750
1760
1770
1780
- 1790 CE :
  Groping for Truth
1790
- 1790 CE :
  Groping for Truth
1800
- 1806 CE :
  Napoleon’s Jewish Court
1810
- 1812 CE :
  Red Rose of Petra
1820
- 1827 CE :
  A Soul Divided

1830
- 1832 CE :
  Blackface Minstrel Shows
- 1840 CE :
  With Thanks from Damascus
1840
- 1840 CE :
  With Thanks from Damascus
- 1842 CE :
  Charlotte Rothschild – First Jewish Female Artist
- 1845 CE :
  The Angry Convert
- 1848 CE :
  Jewish? French? Italian!
- 1850 CE :
  Matza – More Than Just Crumbs
1850
- 1850 CE :
  Matza – More Than Just Crumbs
- 1852 CE :
  Mum’s the Word Mum’s the Word
- 1860 CE :
  Written Off
1860
- 1860 CE :
  Written Off
- 1868 CE :
  Hungarian Schism
- 1870 CE :
  A Man unto Himself The Kaiser’s Cap
1870
- 1870 CE :
  A Man unto Himself The Kaiser’s Cap
- 1873 CE :
  Boy Wonders
- 1875 CE :
  The Many Faces of Maurycy Gottlieb Shtreimel Variations: The History of a Hat
- 1877 CE :
  Off the Boat
- 1880 CE :
  Fastest Jew in the West
1880
- 1880 CE :
  Fastest Jew in the West
- 1881 CE :
  The Jewish Girl who Set the Wild West Ablaze
- 1882 CE :
  When Etrogim Briefly Grew on Trees
- 1883 CE :
  Kafka – Too Short A Story
- 1884 CE :
  The Original Zionist Congress
- 1886 CE :
  Place in the Sun
- 1887 CE :
  Marc Chagall – the Surrealist Jew
- 1889 CE :
  New York – A Community in Flux
- 1890 CE :
  PIONEER POET
1890
- 1890 CE :
  PIONEER POET
- 1892 CE :
  When Shakespeare Spoke Yiddish
- 1894 CE :
  Herzl’s Psychodrama Egypt’s Jewish Molière The Too Jewish Missionary
- 1895 CE :
  Zionist with Cello
- 1897 CE :
  The Jewish Father of French Impressionism The Congress that Founded the Jewish State The Pied Piper of Yom Kippur
- 1900 CE :
  Healing Minds with Sigmund Freud
1900
- 1900 CE :
  Healing Minds with Sigmund Freud
- 1906 CE :
  The Saga of a Budapest Family Sukka
- 1908 CE :
  The Jewish American Secret Police
- 1909 CE :
  black wedding
- 1910 CE :
  One Hundred Good Years
1910
- 1910 CE :
  One Hundred Good Years
- 1913 CE :
  Planting Seedlings Mark Gertler – Nothing but Art
- 1914 CE :
  Did Jew Know? Tomorrow’s War Ticket to Riches
- 1915 CE :
  Albert Einstein’s Quantum Leap Forgotten Jews of Bisan
- 1916 CE :
  Amedeo Modigliani – Jewish Expressionism
- 1917 CE :
  The Gateway The Viscount of Megiddo Return of the Spies Guard Down Long Before Balfour
- 1918 CE :
  Luboml City Post Dying in Vain
- 1920 CE :
  Isidor Kaufmann – Jewish Ritual Beauty My Son, the Gangster The Fourth Commandment and the Eighteenth Amendment
1920
- 1920 CE :
  Isidor Kaufmann – Jewish Ritual Beauty My Son, the Gangster The Fourth Commandment and the Eighteenth Amendment
- 1921 CE :
  Make Art, Not War
- 1924 CE :
  God Save the Dutch Queen It Takes a (Hasidic) Village
- 1927 CE :
  Painter of Jerusalem Breaking the Sound Barrier No Business Like Show Business
- 1929 CE :
  Painting Propaganda
- 1930 CE :
  The Wedding That Wasn’t
1930
- 1930 CE :
  The Wedding That Wasn’t
- 1933 CE :
  Haifa and Salonika – the Jewish Ports
- 1935 CE :
  Gefilte Jazz
- 1936 CE :
  Megilla with a Secular Twist
- 1940 CE :
  A Beautiful Mind 9 Things You Didn’t Know About Hedy Lamarr

1880
- 1880 CE :
  Fastest Jew in the West
- 1881 CE :
  The Jewish Girl who Set the Wild West Ablaze
- 1882 CE :
  When Etrogim Briefly Grew on Trees
- 1883 CE :
  Kafka – Too Short A Story
- 1884 CE :
  The Original Zionist Congress
- 1886 CE :
  Place in the Sun
- 1887 CE :
  Marc Chagall – the Surrealist Jew
- 1889 CE :
  New York – A Community in Flux
- 1890 CE :
  PIONEER POET
1890
- 1890 CE :
  PIONEER POET
- 1892 CE :
  When Shakespeare Spoke Yiddish
- 1894 CE :
  Herzl’s Psychodrama Egypt’s Jewish Molière The Too Jewish Missionary
- 1895 CE :
  Zionist with Cello
- 1897 CE :
  The Jewish Father of French Impressionism The Congress that Founded the Jewish State The Pied Piper of Yom Kippur
- 1900 CE :
  Healing Minds with Sigmund Freud
1900
- 1900 CE :
  Healing Minds with Sigmund Freud
- 1906 CE :
  The Saga of a Budapest Family Sukka
- 1908 CE :
  The Jewish American Secret Police
- 1909 CE :
  black wedding
- 1910 CE :
  One Hundred Good Years
1910
- 1910 CE :
  One Hundred Good Years
- 1913 CE :
  Planting Seedlings Mark Gertler – Nothing but Art
- 1914 CE :
  Did Jew Know? Tomorrow’s War Ticket to Riches
- 1915 CE :
  Albert Einstein’s Quantum Leap Forgotten Jews of Bisan
- 1916 CE :
  Amedeo Modigliani – Jewish Expressionism
- 1917 CE :
  The Gateway The Viscount of Megiddo Return of the Spies Guard Down Long Before Balfour
- 1918 CE :
  Luboml City Post Dying in Vain
- 1920 CE :
  Isidor Kaufmann – Jewish Ritual Beauty My Son, the Gangster The Fourth Commandment and the Eighteenth Amendment
1920
- 1920 CE :
  Isidor Kaufmann – Jewish Ritual Beauty My Son, the Gangster The Fourth Commandment and the Eighteenth Amendment
- 1921 CE :
  Make Art, Not War
- 1924 CE :
  God Save the Dutch Queen It Takes a (Hasidic) Village
- 1927 CE :
  Painter of Jerusalem Breaking the Sound Barrier No Business Like Show Business
- 1929 CE :
  Painting Propaganda
- 1930 CE :
  The Wedding That Wasn’t
1930
- 1930 CE :
  The Wedding That Wasn’t
- 1933 CE :
  Haifa and Salonika – the Jewish Ports
- 1935 CE :
  Gefilte Jazz
- 1936 CE :
  Megilla with a Secular Twist
- 1940 CE :
  A Beautiful Mind 9 Things You Didn’t Know About Hedy Lamarr
1940
- 1940 CE :
  A Beautiful Mind 9 Things You Didn’t Know About Hedy Lamarr
- 1942 CE :
  Flowing But Not Forgotten All-American Rebbe
- 1943 CE :
  Fight for the Spirit Spark of Rebellion Drawing for Dear Life
- 1945 CE :
  Damned If You Do Lights, Camera, Zionism!
- 1946 CE :
  Escape Room
- 1947 CE :
  United Nations Vote – 29 November 1947
- 1948 CE :
  Posting Independence The Battle on the Hill Sky-Heist Scent of Freedom The Best Defense Cable Car to Jerusalem
- 1949 CE :
  Shmuel Zanwil Kahane and the Legend of the Holy Ashes
- 1950 CE :
  Lost in Eilat Eilat’s Treasures Strength in Numbers The Shrine on the Mountain Voice Behind the Iron Curtain
1950
- 1950 CE :
  Lost in Eilat Eilat’s Treasures Strength in Numbers The Shrine on the Mountain Voice Behind the Iron Curtain
- 1951 CE :
  Curator or Creator
- 1952 CE :
  The Night of the Murdered Poets
- 1955 CE :
  The Hitchhikers’ Guide to Jew York
- 1957 CE :
  Shmuel Zanwil Kahane’s Map of Holy Sites
- 1960 CE :
  Jewish as Can Be
1960
- 1960 CE :
  Jewish as Can Be
- 1967 CE :
  1967 Declassified Comments Through Lions’ Gate De-Classified Comments New Life in Jerusalem’s Old City
1970
- 1973 CE :
  Faith Under Fire
1980
- 1982 CE :
  TORAH FROM SIDON

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