Twenty ancient coins, including a coin of Matthieu Antigonus, one of the last of the Hasmonean kings, were seized in a joint operation Tuesday evening in eastern Jerusalem by Israel Police from ...

In this revised edition of his 2014 book, Champion, author of Pyrrhus of Epirus and the two-volume The Tyrants of Syracuse: War in Ancient Sicily, looks at the protracted wars of the “Successors” (322 ...

The coin comes from the reign of the Hasmonean King Antigonus II Mattathias, who ruled from 40 BCE to 37 BCE. He was the last Jewish king, his death marking the end of Jewish sovereignty until 1948.

The true achievement at Sebastia belongs however to the generalship of Hyrcanus’s two eldest sons: Judas, nom-de-guerre Aristobulus, and Matthias, nom-de-guerre Antigonus – hereafter known by ...