Jul 2
By: Marek Dospěl
Learn how scholars identify ancient gardens, what Herod’s gardens looked like, and how they fit in the larger landscape.
Jul 1
By: Ellen White
The open-air altar shrine, called a bamah (plural bamot), is known through several books of the Biblical canon. Often referred to as “high places” in translations of the Bible, bamot were worship sites that usually contained an altar.
Jun 28
By: David Rafael Moulis
According to the Hebrew Bible, Hezekiah “removed the high places, broke down the pillars and cut down the sacred pole” (2 Kings 18:4). What was Hezekiah’s religious reform like on the ground, and what were his motives?
Jun 13
By: Sarah K. Yeomans
Did the Antonine Plague influence shifts in religious practices at the end of the second century C.E.?
Jun 2
By: Robin Ngo
Pharaoh Akhenaten, who abolished the Egyptian pantheon and instituted worship of a single deity, the sun-disk Aten, in the mid-14th century B.C., may have established the world’s first monotheism. Did this influence the birth of Israelite monotheism?
May 31
By: Robin Ngo
The Assyrians referenced in the Hebrew Bible were a mighty force that exerted power over much of the Near East, including Israel and Judah, in the ninth through seventh centuries B.C.E.
May 29
By: Christina Triantafillou
Excavations in the city of Cologne have uncovered the remains of Germany’s oldest library.
May 23
By: Robin Ngo
A recently published paper describes researchers using ancient ingredients to recreate ancient beers.
May 22
By: Robin Ngo
A recent study argues that overpopulation and drought may have contributed to the rapid demise of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
May 20
By: Trevor Bryce
In the latter part of the second millennium B.C., the Hittite empire was a Near Eastern superpower. Then, suddenly, the empire collapsed and Hattusa was invaded and destroyed.
