Once an influential Jewish hub on Central Asia's Silk Road, urban center in Uzbekistan is now home to just several hundred ...

For decades, archeologists in Israel believed they had discovered an ancient synagogue on a road to Beit Guvrin National Park. But new research suggests the structure was actually a Roman temple. This ...

A pilgrim who visited the Second Temple in Jerusalem may have carved their memories into a limestone block for another ...

FILE - A Tunisian police officer stands at the entrance at El-Ghriba synagogue, the oldest Jewish monument built in Africa more than 2,500 years ago, while Jewish pilgrims attend the annual Jewish ...

Archeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old synagogue from the Second Temple period during excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority in Migdal near the Sea of Galilee. The 390-square-foot ...

UNC-Chapel Hill professor Jodi Magness recently wrapped up 11 seasons of archaeological excavations at an ancient Jewish synagogue at a village in Israel called Huqoq. Back in 2012, her team uncovered ...

PROVO, Utah — Brigham Young University faculty and students excavating an ancient synagogue near the Sea of Galilee made an exciting discovery; as they were cleaning dirt from a mosaic section of the ...

The ancient synagogue was discovered near the Black Sea in Russia, experts said. The Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Archaeologists in Russia recently unearthed the ruins ...

A 1,500-year-old synagogue was recently uncovered in northern Israel — a discovery that sheds light on the enduring Jewish presence in the region that also gave rise to early Christianity. The ...

Two synagogues in Istanbul will close down shortly because the Jewish population of this city has declined so greatly as a result of the immigration to Israel that there are not enough worshippers ...