以色列考古学

以色列考古学是研究以色列从史前到近三千年来有文字记录历史的考古学研究。在古代，以色列这片土地是中东两大政治文化中心，美索不达米亚文明和古埃及文明，的地理桥梁。 尽管以色列是三大宗教圣地，严谨的考古学研究自15世纪才开始起步。 第一部关于以色列考古的主要著作是1709年出版的Adrian Reland'写的 Palestina ex monumentis veteribus。 Edward Robinson，1838年考察过圣地的美国神学家，发表了第一部地形学研究。1850年法国人 Louis Felicien de Saucy，开始第一次“现代”发掘。
在讨论1980年代当时以色列考古学时，以色列考古学家David Ussishkin 评论说“以色列考古学”这个名称不再代表单一的研究路径，它的范围已经涵盖多种多样的考古学派、学科和方法。

阿克（阿卡）古城

阿卡古城在2001年被联合国教科文组织列为世界文化遗产,阿卡古城自1990年代以来一直有很多考古发掘项目。主要的发现是通往一个13世纪的圣殿骑士团堡垒的地下通道。十字军时期的阿卡遗迹，可追溯到1104年至1291年，保存完好，并在当前阿卡的地表和地下展示。

别是巴遗址

A UNESCO World Heritage site since 2005, Tel Be'er Sheva is an archaeological site in southern Israel, believed to be the remains of the biblical town of Be'er Sheva. Archaeological finds indicate that the site was inhabited from the Chalcolithic period, around 4000 BCE,to the 16th century CE. This was probably due to the abundance of underground water, as evidenced by the numerous wells in the area. Excavated by Yohanan Aharoni and Ze'ev Herzog of Tel Aviv University, the settlement itself is dated to the early Israelite period.Probably populated in the 12th century BCE, the first fortified settlement dates to 1000 BCE.The city was likely destroyed by Sennacherib in 700 BCE, and after a habitation hiatus of three hundred years, there is evidence of remains from the Persian, Hellenistic, Roman and Early Arab periods.Major finds include an elaborate water system and a huge cisterncarved out of the rock beneath the town, and a large horned altar which was reconstructed using several well-dressed stones found in secondary use in the walls of a later building. The altar attests to the existence of a temple or cult center in the city which was probably dismantled during the reforms of King Hezekiah.

米吉多遗址

2005年，米吉利多遗址被列为联合国教科文组织世界文化遗产，Tel Megiddo包括二十六个分层的古城的废墟在一个战略位置通过Carmel里奇的顶端，俯瞰Jezreel从西部谷。 Megiddo已经挖掘了三次。第一次挖掘在1903年和1905年之间进行，第二次远征在1925年进行。在这些挖掘期间，发现有二十层的居住，并且许多遗骸被保存在耶路撒冷的洛克菲勒博物馆和芝加哥大学东方研究所。 Yigael Yadin在20世纪60年代进行了几次小型挖掘。自1994年以来，Megiddo一直是由以色列Finkelstein和David Ussishkin领导的特拉维夫大学Megiddo探险队与一个国际大学联合会进行的半年挖掘运动的主题。在1927年和1934年之间进行的挖掘的主要发现是Megiddo Stables - 两个三边形结构，尺寸为21米×11米，据信是古代的马厩能够容纳近500匹马。 

考古研究机构

奥斯曼帝国时期的最后一百年（19世纪）, 巴勒斯坦地区活跃的西方考古学家多数是基督徒, 受欧洲强国和教会支持。 随着奥斯曼帝国的统治被英国取代，考古学的政治性和宗教性减弱，历史性和科学性变得更强。一战和英国在巴勒斯坦的统治确定后，考古研究机构越来越多的集中在耶路撒冷.
 在1913年至1914年，Yishuv的知识精英成立了the Socity for the Reclamation of Antiquities。其创始人之一是Avraham Yaakov Brawer，David Yellin和Aharon Meir Mazie。该协会于1920年改名为犹太巴勒斯坦探索协会，后来改名为以色列探险协会。
耶路撒冷的英国考古学院在1921年开始运作，巴勒斯坦探矿基金会的斯图尔特·马卡利斯特和邓肯·麦肯齐先生呼吁英国政府建立一个当地文物当局。 Macalister和Mackenzie表示关注由于战斗在整个土地上战斗给考古遗址带来的危险。麦肯齐对警察考古遗址和偷窃物品也警惕In 1913–1914 the Society for the Reclamation of Antiquities was established by the Yishuv's intellectual elite. Among its founder were Avraham Yaakov Brawer, David Yellin and Aharon Meir Mazie. The Society changed its name to the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society in 1920 and later to the Israel Exploration Society.
耶路撒冷希伯来大学考古研究所成立于1926年。1934年希伯来大学开设了考古学系，被誉为“以色列考古学的发源地” 特拉维夫大学考古研究所成立于1969.
现代以色列国在1948年成立后， the British Mandatory Department of Antiquities, 设立在洛克菲勒考古博物馆（Rockefeller Museum）的, 成为以色列文物部. 1990年，以色列国家文物部成为以色列文物局（ Israel Antiquities Authority）, 一个自治的政府机构，负责所有国家的文物，并授权挖掘、保存、保护和管理文物.

考古新技术

Israeli archaeologists have developed a method of detecting objects buried dozens of meters underground using a combination of seven technologies, among them echomagnetic soundings, radio transmissions and temperature measurements, able to distinguish between relevant and irrelevant objects such as pipes in the ground.

考古学政治化

更多信息: Politics of archaeology in Israel and Palestine
Archaeological research and preservation efforts have been exploited by both Palestinians and Israelis for partisan ends.Rather than attempting to understand "the natural process of demolition, eradication, rebuilding, evasion, and ideological reinterpretation that has permitted ancient rulers and modern groups to claim exclusive possession," archaeologists have instead become active participants in the battle over partisan memory, with the result that archaeology, a seemingly objective science, has exacerbated the ongoing nationalist dispute. Silberman concludes: "The digging continues. Claims and counterclaims about exclusive historical 'ownership' weave together the random acts of violence of bifurcated collective memory." Adam and Moodley conclude their investigation into this issue by writing that, "Both sides remain prisoners of their mythologized past."
As an example of this process, an archaeological tunnel running the length of the western side of the Temple Mount, as it is known to Jews, or the Haram al-Sharif, as it is known to Muslims, became a serious point of contestation in 1996. The tunnel had been in place for about a dozen years, but open conflict broke out after the government of Benjamin Netanyahu decided to open a new entrance to the tunnel from the Via Dolorosa in the Muslim quarter of the Old City. Palestinians and the Islamic Waqf authorities were outraged that the decision was taken without prior consultation. They claimed that the work threatened the foundations of the compound and those of houses in the Muslim quarter and that it was actually aimed at tunnelling under the holy compound complex to find remains of Solomon's Temple, similar to previous accusations in the 1980s. As a result of the rumor, Arabs rioted in Jerusalem and then spread to the West Bank, leading to the deaths of 86 Palestinians and 15 Israeli soldiers.

对考古遗址的破坏

1948–1967年，约旦当局和军队参与了对耶路撒冷老城犹太区的“精心策划的摧毁”。  在以色列驻联合国代表Yosef Tekoa写给联合国的信中，他抗议约旦“恶意毁坏、亵渎和侵犯”的政策 ，老城内除了一处会堂外，所有犹太会堂被炸毁或被作为马厩。 通往橄榄山犹太人墓地的道路被切断，上万块犹太人墓碑，一些追溯到公元前一世纪，被毁坏或作为石板、台阶、和建筑材料修建约旦军事设施。
1982年，在约旦国提议下，老城和老城城墙被列入处于危险的世界遗产名录。
自1990年代后期，Islamic Waqf在圣殿山上将两个古代地下结构改造为一个清真寺的工程毁坏了所罗门马厩和 Huldah Gates 区域的考古遗址。
第一圣殿时期的遗址被毁坏，上千吨挖掘出的古代fill被倾倒进 Kidron Valley 和耶路撒冷市政垃圾堆。这使得进行考古学调查变得不可能。
2011年，以色列发表年报，批评Waqf在圣殿山上的翻新工程。这一工程没有得到许可，并使用了工程机械，对考古遗址造成了破坏。
2012年，贝都因挖宝者毁坏了Beit Shemesh附近的一个十字军建筑下的一个两千年历史的古井的围墙。 .