Ashkelon Dog Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2024
About 50 km south of Tel Aviv, on the Mediterranean coast, near the ancient city of Ashkelon, archaeologists from the 1985 Leon Levi Expedit...
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The Grave of Harry Potter in Ramle, Israel
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 15, 2023
In the British Commonwealth war cemetery in Ramle, Israel, is a grave that has been receiving quite a lot of footfall from tourists in the p...
Shapira Scrolls: Forgery or Genuine?
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2022
In 1883, a Jerusalem antiquities dealer named Moses Wilhelm Shapira announced the discovery of a remarkable artifact—15 fragments of ancient...
When Israel Erased Color From Television Broadcasts
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 10, 2021
The first television broadcast in Israel was black and white, but unlike most nations, it wasn’t due to the lack of technology to broadcast ...
The Great Glass Slab at Beth Shearim
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 26, 2020
In a cave adjacent to an ancient cemetery near Beit She'arim, an old Jewish town in northern Israel, there lies a huge slab of glass app...
Black Weddings: Marrying in The Time of Cholera
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2020
Last month, a peculiar wedding ceremony took place at a cemetery in Bnei Brak, a city in Israel, just east of Tel Aviv. With government re...
The Caves of Maresha And Bet-Guvrin
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 25, 2019
The Shfela lowlands in south-central Israel, at the foot of the Judaean Mountains, is characterized by a thick layer of soft chalk that was ...
The Immovable Ladder of Jerusalem’s Church of The Holy Sepulchre
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2018
Underneath one of the arched windows of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the Old City of Jerusalem, there is an old wooden ladder casual...
Rhythmic Springs
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 15, 2017
Rhythmic springs are those springs that exhibit tidal characteristics. In other words, the water level of these springs rises and falls over...
Rujm el-Hiri: Israel’s Stonehenge
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 1, 2016
This ancient megalith monument, consisting of concentric stone circles and a tumulus at the center, although looks impressive from the air, ...
