Jewish veterans from the Roman army — and not Shimon Bar Kochba — may have initially led the 2nd-century Jewish rebellion against the Romans commonly known as the “Bar Kochba Revolt.” ...

Three wars were fought between the Jewish and the Romans; Bar Kochba was the third and the least among them. Hence, we also know it as the Third Jewish-Roman War or the Third Jewish Revolt. The Kitos ...

The answer can be found in what the Bar Kokhba Revolt itself symbolized to the modern Zionist movement. Yael Zerubavel observed that, The Zionist search for roots in the ancient national past ...

A recent study led by Haggai Olshanetsky, a researcher at the University of Warsaw, has changed the historical perception of the Bar Kokhba Revolt or Second Jewish Revolt (sometimes also called the ...

The excavation revealed that, as part of the preparations for the First Revolt of 66 CE, and the Bar Kokhba Revolt of 132 CE, the residents of Huqoq converted the water cistern that had been dug ...

The Bar Kochba revolt, which lasted three and a half years, was the last and arguably greatest of several Jewish uprisings against foreign rulers in ancient times. The rebels prepared well ahead ...

The excavation also revealed that, as part of the preparations for the First Revolt in 66 CE and the Bar Kokhba Revolt in 132 CE, the residents of Huqoq converted the water cistern (dug in the ...

In honor of Lag B’Omer, the Israel Antiquities Authority on Monday revealed a rare bronze coin from the period of the Bar Kokhba revolt (circa 132 CE), which was discovered in archaeological ...

Writing almost a century after the Bar Kochba revolt, Cassius Dio’s account of the revolt indicates that the Jewish forces arrayed against Rome were formidable. A MAN STANDS beneath a waterfall ...

The shelters were thought to have been prepared ahead of the Bar Kochba Revolt against the Romans in 132-136 CE. The excavations revealed that residents of Huqoq, a Jewish settlement near the Sea ...