Exciting Finds from the First and Second Temple Period are being uncovered by the IAA

• Two Ritual Baths (Miqva'ot) of the Great Synagogue of Vilna are Exposed Seventy Years after their Destruction in the Holocaust
  
• Rare Find: Excavations at Reina in Galilee Reveal a 2,000 Year-Old Stone Vessel Quarry and Production Center
  
• On the Occasion of Jerusalem Day, the Israel Antiquities Authority Reveals: Evidence of the Last Battle for Jerusalem from 2,000 Years Ago
  
• A Rare Stone Slab c. 9,000 Years Old was Exposed that was used to Ignite Fire
  
• Evidence of the World War I Battlefield was Exposed in Rosh Ha-Ayin
  
• Hundreds of Liquor Bottles belonging to British Soldiers from World War I were Exposed near Ramla
  
• 1,800 Year Old Hebrew Inscriptions were Exposed on a Column Capital in Peqiin Village
  
• Inauguration of the New Miqwe (Ritual Bath) Trail at the Ophel Site in the Walls Around Jerusalem National Park
  
• Engravings of a Seven-Branched Menorah and a Cross were Discovered by Hikers in an Ancient Water Cistern in the Judean Shephelah
  
• A Stone Bowl Engraved with a Rare Hebrew Inscription – “Hyrcanus” – Dating to the Hasmonean Period was Discovered
  
• After Years It Could Not Be Seen: A Seal of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, Builder of the Jaffa Clock Tower, was Conserved by the Israel Antiquities Authority
  
• An Important Archaeological Discovery: A Gate-Shrine Dating to the First Temple Period was Exposed In Excavations of the Israel Antiquities Authority in the Tel Lachish National Park
  
• A National Plan to Excavate the Judean Desert Caves and Save the Scrolls from Being Robbed