Nearly 2,000 years ago, someone at a Judean hilltop fortress pressed a cheap copper-alloy ring into wax or clay, leaving ...

A 2,000-year-old ring with Greek letters may reveal a new link to Pontius Pilate and Roman administration in Judea.

It's a small, simple ring made of copper alloy and engraved with a handful of Greek letters and the image of a pottery vessel ...

The mystery surrounding the Pilate ring may have been solved with just a single Greek letter. A recent paper proposes that the inscription on the ring is Latin written in Greek characters meaning “For ...

The archaeological find could hardly have been more modest: a small ring made of copper alloy, with a few Greek letters ...

Fifty years ago, while excavating at Herodium, near Bethlehem in the West Bank, archaeologist Gideon Forster discovered a bronze ring. It was one of thousands of finds and its discovery did not cause ...

A 2,000-year-old ring unearthed 50 years ago may have been worn by Pontius Pilate, who served as the Roman prefect of Judaea from 26 to 37 AD. He served under the Roman emperor Tiberius during the ...

JERUSALEM - Israeli researchers say an inscription on an ancient ring discovered near Jerusalem may include the name of Pontius Pilate, the Roman official who Biblical accounts say sentenced Jesus to ...