The mosaics at the Huqoq synagogue date to the synagogue's construction in the early fifth century, or possibly slightly later. To try to figure out why the artists chose to depict nonbiblical ...

For the first time, archaeologists have released detailed images of stunning biblical mosaics ... in early Christian art, this is the first time it has been found decorating an ancient synagogue ...

Digging began over a decade ago at the site of a fifth century synagogue ... small mosaic stones, called tesserae—a hint that something truly special might lie beneath. Dawn’s early light ...

Image of a fox eating grapes in a Huqoq synagogue mosaic. Experts are still early in the process of analyzing the mosaics’ significance, and their findings have not yet been published. But the artwork ...

Did Alexander the Great meet a Jewish priest, and was this meeting enshrined in a mosaic floor ... Late Roman and Early Byzantine periods. The village includes houses and a synagogue, and ...

The excavations into the late fourth-early fifth century synagogue, which are in their tenth season, have been progressively uncovering the remarkable mosaic that adorned the floor of the structure.

Workers at the collective were digging a drainage ditch when they came across a beautiful and provocative mosaic ... the early rabbis, 2,000 years ago, have reacted to artwork in a synagogue ...

Each summer, she directs her students to find and analyze the remains of this late Roman synagogue to garner a clearer picture of the era and its inhabitants. The mosaic discovered in the fifth ...

Elsewhere in the ancient synagogue, other mosaics depict scenes from the Book of Judges, Magness tells Religion News Service. Because existing rabbinic literature from the time doesn’t describe ...