First-century rock drawings in the Sinai and more than 700 fifth-century B.C.E. canine skeletons unearthed at the coastal site of Ashkelon south of Tel Aviv attest to the historical prominence Read more…
News
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Canaan Canine Faces Threat in Israel
• 03/29/2012
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Price of the Shekel Rises to $1 Million
• 03/28/2012
An American collector paid $1.1 million for an ancient Judean coin at an auction in New York earlier this month. The silver shekel, dated to the first year of the Read more…
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Italian Dig in Iraq Discovers Bronze Age “Tomb of the Prince”
• 03/27/2012
Italian archaeologists working at Tal Abu Tbeirah in southern Iraq recently excavated a lavish tomb dating to the middle of the third millennium B.C.E. Dubbed the “tomb of the little Read more…
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Newly Established Hiking Trail Guides Adventurous Travelers Through Turkey’s Archaeological Wonders
• 03/26/2012
Named by The Sunday Times as one of the world’s top ten walks, the Lycian Way hiking trail weaves along 300 miles of Turkey’s southern coastline through hundreds of archaeological Read more…
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Archaeologists Find Earliest Known Metal Equestrian Bit in Israel
• 03/22/2012
Excavations at the Middle Bronze Age site of Tel Haror in Israel uncovered a metal bit in an equid burial dating between 1750 and 1650 B.C.E. It is the oldest Read more…
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Archaeologists Use Satellites to Identify Thousands of Sites in Syria
• 03/21/2012
A recent innovative project combining 1960s spy-satellite photography, multispectral images and digital maps of the Earth’s surface has mapped 14,000 settlements across 8,880 square miles in northeastern Syria. The study Read more…
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Research Suggests an Extended (After)Lifespan for Meidum Necropolis
• 03/20/2012
For over a century, Egyptologists have studied the necropolis of Meidum as an exclusively Old Kingdom (27-22nd centuries B.C.E.) burial site, but new investigations by Polish researcher Teodozja Rzeuska suggest Read more…
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Leaked Memo Signals Danger to Syrian Antiquities
• 03/19/2012
The Facebook page “Le patrimoine archéologique syrien en danger” (“Syrian Archaeological Ruins in Danger”) released an internal Syrian government memo discussing a large-scale antiquities looting operation being set up by Read more…
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Inmate Turns Egyptologist Through Study of Hieroglyphs (and BAR)
• 03/16/2012
Timothy Fenstermacher, an inmate at Tehachapi State Prison, surprised Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR) editors in 2010 with an insightful response regarding the distribution of the so-called “Sinai hieroglyph” referenced in Read more…
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VERDICT: NOT GUILTY
• 03/14/2012
July 2012 update: In the July/August 2012 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Hershel Shanks presents the authoritative post-trial analysis of the James Ossuary in the article “‘Brother of Jesus’ Inscription Read more…
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Breaking News: Golan and Deutsch Acquitted of All Forgery Charges
• 03/14/2012
On March 14, Jerusalem Judge Aharon Farkash found defendants Oded Golan and Robert Deutsch not guilty of all charges of forgery. The judge stated that there is no evidence that Read more…
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LiDAR at the Jezreel Expedition
• 03/13/2012
Update: Jezreel Expedition directors Norma Franklin and Jennie Ebeling discuss the results of the LiDAR survey in the May/June 2013 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review. Read more about the Jezreel Read more…
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Restoration Completed on the World’s Oldest Major Parliament
• 03/12/2012
After the largest archaeological restoration project in Turkish history, taking over two years and costing 7.5 million Turkish liras to complete, the Lycian League Parliament building in Patara has regained Read more…
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Bowling Green State University Explores Repatriation of Looted Mosaics
• 03/09/2012
Bowling Green State University has quickly and candidly responded to accusations of owning looted mosaics from the Turkish site of Zeugma. The Turkish government requested that the mosaics be returned Read more…
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Syrian Forces Take Up Positions in Palmyra’s Ruins
• 03/08/2012
According to residents of the Syrian town of Palmyra, the site of one of the largest trade emporiums of the ancient world, the Syrian army has occupied the town’s ancient Read more…
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Pharaoh Amenhotep III Sits Tall Again
• 03/06/2012
The joint Egyptian and European “Colossi of Memnon and Amenhotep III Temple Conservation Project” recently re-erected a colossal quartzite statue of Pharaoh Amenhotep III near Luxor, Egypt. The smoothly polished Read more…
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Initials Findings from Horvat Midras Published
• 03/05/2012
A preliminary report on the excavations of the Byzantine church site of Horvat Midras, thought to be a memorial to the tomb of the prophet Zechariah, has been published in Read more…
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Jewelry from the Time of the Judges Found at Megiddo
• 03/01/2012
Archaeologists working at the site of Megiddo in Israel’s Jezreel Valley recently discovered a hoard of gold, silver and bronze jewelry dating to around 1100 B.C.E. The jewelry was found Read more…
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Greek Warrior’s Helmet Found in Bay of Haifa
• 02/29/2012
Archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) report that a Greek warrior’s helmet recovered from the Bay of Haifa likely belonged to a Greek mercenary who fought for the Egyptian Read more…
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Archaeologists Begin Restoring Ancient Egyptian Ship
• 02/28/2012
Japanese and Egyptian archaeologists and conservators are beginning the long process of restoring the second of two ancient ships that were buried with the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu near the Great Read more…
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Turkish Authorities Claim to Have Seized Early Biblical Text
• 02/27/2012
Turkish media outlets report that Turkey is in possession of a 1,500-year-old Biblical text that was seized by police in 2000 during a raid on a smuggling operation. The text, Read more…
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Site Where Ark of the Covenant Rested to Be Preserved
• 02/23/2012
An Israeli heritage committee has allocated NIS 5 million (about $1.3 million) for the renovation and preservation of Tel Shiloh, the site where, according to Biblical tradition, the Ark of Read more…
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Jerusalem Archaeologists Uncover the “Elusive City” of Aelia Capitolina
• 02/21/2012
Recent excavations conducted in and around Jerusalem’s Old City are beginning to reveal the vestiges of Aelia Capitolina, the important but still relatively unknown Roman city built atop Jerusalem in Read more…
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Important Temple Mount Model Returns to Jerusalem
• 02/16/2012
A 19th-century model of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, which details nearly every early excavation and underground passageway known at the time, was returned to Jerusalem last week. The model, which measures Read more…
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Israel Approves New City of David Visitor Center
• 02/15/2012
The Jerusalem District Planning and Construction Committee approved this week a plan to build a new visitor center above the ongoing Givati parking lot excavations within the existing City of Read more…
