In time for Hanukkah, archaeologists reveal battle-scarred stronghold against Maccabees
Jerusalem, IsraelRNS Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 2,100-year-old stronghold they believe constitutes physical evidence of the yearslong armed conflict whose crucial battle is celebrated by Jews today during Hanukkah. What the archaeologists have found, they say, was built by the losers of that conflict: the Seleucids, forces of the occupying Greek empire, who were doing […]