Israel Department of Antiquities
Israel Antiquities Authority storage room
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| Formation | 1948 |
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| Headquarters | Jerusalem |
| Website | antiquities.org.il Antiquities.org.il |
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA, Hebrew: רשות העתיקות, translit. rashut ha-'atiqot; Arabic: داﺌرة الآثار, before 1990, the Israel Department of Antiquities) is an independent Israeli governmental authority responsible for enforcing the 1978 Law of Antiquities. The IAA regulates excavation and conservation, and promotes research. The director-general is Shuka Dorfmann and its offices are housed in the Rockefeller Museum.
The Israel Antiquities Authority plans to move into a new building for the National Campus for the Archaeology of Israel in Jerusalem, next to the Israel Museum.
The Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums (IDAM) of the Ministry of Education was founded on July 26, 1948, after the establishment of the State of Israel. It took over the functions of the Department of Antiquities of the British Mandate in Israel. Originally, its activities were based on the British Mandate Department of Antiquities ordinances.
IDAM was the statutory authority responsible for the Israel's antiquities and for the administration of small museums. Its functions include curation of the state collection of antiquities, storing of the state collection, maintaining a list of registered antiquities sites, inspecting antiquities sites and registering newly discovered sites, conducting salvage and rescue operations of endangered antiquities sites, maintaining an archaeological library (the state library), maintaining an archive.
It published the results of excavations in three journals: Booklet of the Department of Antiquities Hebrew, now defunct, Atiqot [Hebrew and English], still published, and Hadashot Arkheologiyot [Hebrew and English]--still published, online. IDAM also funded and managed the Archaeological Survey of Israel and published the results of its work in maps covering 10 km² of the State of Israel.
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