It was a rare opportunity to visit the ancient Roman-era Jewish catacombs under the grounds of the villa Torlonia in Rome and see first hand some of the extraordinary painted decoration of the tombs. The catacombs, believed to date from … continue reading →
The government has designated Jewbury Medieval Jewish Cemetery in York, which today lies buried under a public parking garage, as a Scheduled Monument on the National Heritage List for England, granting it certain protections from development schemes. Scheduled monuments include … continue reading →
We have posted a number of times about the extraordinary discoveries archaeologists have made over the past few years at the site of the destroyed Great Synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania. Now the 2023 documentary film about the excavations and discoveries … continue reading →
Archaeologists have uncovered the foundations of the pre-burial house in Warsaw’s Bródno Jewish cemetery — the city’s oldest Jewish burial site, which was largely ravaged during and after World War II. The results “managed to capture everything that survived the … continue reading →
Archaeologists have discovered what they say is an ancient Roman-era mikveh amid the sprawling ruins of the ancient port city of Ostia Antica outside Rome. It was described as the oldest mikveh as yet discovered outside the middle east. The … continue reading →
