The archaeology of Israel is the study of the archaeology of the present-day Israel, stretching from prehistory through three millennia of documented history. The ancient Land of Israel was a geographical bridge between the political and cultural centers of Mesopotamia and Egypt.

Louis Félicien Joseph Caignart de Saulcy, better known as simply Félicien or Félix de Saulcy, was a French numismatist, Orientalist, and archaeologist.