Few ancient sites in the Holy Land have ignited the imagination like the lost tombs of the Maccabees, the family that led a Jewish rebel army to victory against Seleucid religious repression in ...

Amar said the Maccabees’ ideals resonate today, with Israel often under an international microscope. “There’s a message to us not to feel the need to conform,” he said.

Ancient findings in the footsteps of the Maccabees Maccabee mansion hiding under modern home. When Theo and Miriam Siebenberg built a house in Jerusalem’s Old City in 1970, Theo had a hunch that ...

Archaeologists say site holds promise as long-sought tomb of biblical Maccabees. An ancient structure apparently matches descriptions of the tomb of Jewish rebels. Posted September 21, 2015.

BEN SHEMEN FOREST, Israel — Israeli archaeologists may be one step closer to solving a riddle that has vexed explorers for more than a century: the location of the fabled tomb of the biblical ...

An ancient riddle awaits solution at Modi'in, west of Jerusalem, where Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) recently uncovered a massive mausoleum that archaeologists believe may be the actual tomb ...

In the late 1880s, a succession of European explorers went searching for the tomb. They were drawn to a barren area near the West Bank village of Midya, a name that resembles Modiin, the ancient ...

December 7, 1909. It is the first day of Hanukkah, and pupils from pre-state Israel’s first Hebrew high school are on a field trip. Their teacher has taken them to the ancient village of Modiin ...

But the Maccabees’ story did not go away. Even the ancient rabbis who may have deemphasized the military victory did not erase it entirely. The al hanisim (“for the miracles”) prayer recited ...

The Maccabees were both revolutionaries and religious extremists, ... Therevolutionaries of ancient Judea have multiple heirs inanti-imperialists and freedom fighters the world over.

Their story is detailed in two ancient texts, Maccabees 1 and Maccabees 2 Here’s a fun twist: these books didn’t make the cut into the Hebrew Bible but found a home in the Catholic Old ...

As we celebrate over Hanukkah’s eight days the valor of those who rose to resist villainy - in those days and in our time - we mark the words of Maccabees both ancient and modern.