The island of Elephantine in Egypt's Nile River contains the remains of a Jewish temple destroyed at the end of the 5th century B.C. Archaeologists have discovered a wealth of ancient documents ...

Excavation work done in 1967 revealed the remains of a Jewish colony centered on a small temple, above, in Elephantine, in what is present-day Aswan, Egypt.

It would be good to know in more detail how Shelomam lived in the frontier world of Jewish soldiers on Elephantine, but the letter stayed there, so perhaps he never made it to Elephantine, never ...

Amazingly, a mysterious Jewish temple was built at Elephantine, quite out of keeping with the Jerusalem-centric efforts characteristic of the rule of Kings David and Solomon.

The Story of the Jews draws on primary sources that include the Elephantine papyri, a collection of 5th-century BC manuscripts illuminating the life of a town of Jewish soldiers and their families ...