It is the first time in the annals of Israeli archaeology that two 2,600-year-old clay ... in 1978 under the direction of Yigal Shiloh, a pioneer archaeologist who found 50 similar seal impression ...

A rare clay seal found under Jerusalem's Old City appears to be linked to religious rituals practiced at the Jewish Temple 2,000 years ago, Israeli archaeologists said Sunday. The coin-sized seal ...

JERUSALEM – A rare clay seal found under Jerusalem’s Old City appears to be linked to religious rituals practiced at the Jewish Temple 2,000 years ago, Israeli archaeologists said Sunday.

Only five years later, when a team member scrutinized it under a magnifying glass and ... Mazar said the back side of the clay imprint of the seal had markings of thin cords that were used to ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed more than 2,000 clay seal impressions that ancient officials once used to fasten government documents. Researchers discovered the stamp collection during ...

cylinder seals. These cylindrical objects have patterns and images embossed on them, and leave a rectangular collection of symbols when rolled over sheets of wet clay. The symbols often referred ...