Israel & the Region Jewish Times Israel Inside Tech Israel Real Estate Israel The Blogs Podcasts Video NEWSLETTERS PARTNERS COMMUNITY About The Times of Israel Advertise on The Times of Israel Contact us Get the Daily Edition Follow us © 2023 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved Terms and conditions Privacy policy ARCHAEOLOGY 'GUARD MY LIFE, FOR I AM FAITHFUL TO YOU' Unique Byzantine Psalm inscription in New Testament Greek discovered in Judean Desert First organized excavation at ruins of Hyrcania sheds light on King Herod’s forbidding fortress, where a small 5th-century monastic community waited out the region’s regime changes By GAVRIEL FISKE Today, 1:00 pm Archaeological dig at Hyrcania Fortress as seen from the air. (Courtesy) A rare inscription paraphrasing part of Psalm 86 in the Greek used in the New Testament has been unearthed by a team of Hebrew University archaeologists working at the Hyrcania Fortress, a Second Temple-era structure situated atop a forb