Jan 15
By: Jonathan Laden
After examining the DNA of 93 bodies recovered from archaeological sites around the southern Levant, the land of Canaan in the Bible, researchers have concluded […]
Aug 7
An excavation of the Saqqara Necropolis by the Egyptian antiquities authority has yielded a large collection of artifacts: animal mummies, wood and bronze statues of Egyptian gods, and much more. The highlight of the press conference was the announcement of the discovery of five lion cub mummies.
Jan 7
Scholars have long debated whether there were many survivors of the volcanic eruption in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Steven L. Tuck finds the survivors.
Sep 29
It has already been established that Columbus was not the first European to lead an expedition sailing to the “New World,” across the vast Atlantic […]
Sep 10
A stone, engraved in Greek, reading “Christ born of Mary.”, was found at el-Taiyiba in the Jezreel Valley in the Upper Galilee. It had originally […]
Feb 20
The name of Priscilla in the New Testament does not come up often in Bible study. Yet, as Ben Witherington III explains in “Priscilla—An Extraordinary […]
Jan 30
A bone fragment, marked with symbols, was found in early 2021 in the Ramie region of Israel. At approximately 120,000 years old, it is possibly […]
Jan 2
On January 17, 2021, the Egyptian archaeological mission announced the discovery in Saqqara of an Old Kingdom funerary temple. They also found a four-meter-long papyrus […]
Dec 21
By: Mary Joan Winn Leith
We three kings of Orient are Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain Following yonder star. —John Henry Hopkins Jr. (1857) […]
Dec 9
A virtual exhibition, Daily Life in an Ancient Judean Town, has been announced by the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology. It promises to cover topics […]
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