Oct 15
By: Megan Sauter
With 11 rock-hewn churches, Lalibela, Ethiopia, is understandably a place of pilgrimage for those in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Explore Lalibela’s spectacular subterranean churches in this web-exclusive slideshow.
Oct 15
A surprise discovery has shed light on the gruesome execution practice of Roman crucifixion. As first reported in December 2021 in the magazine British Archaeology, a […]
Oct 14
Excavators with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered two large administrative buildings in the Mordot Arnona neighborhood of Jerusalem. Constructed one on top of […]
Oct 13
By: Megan Sauter
How was the first woman created in Genesis 2? Was she made from the man’s rib or, as recently suggested in BAR, from his os baculum?
Oct 12
By: Nahum Sarna
The Book of Jonah is read in the synagogue on the afternoon of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, the sacred Day of Atonement. Why, of all books in the Bible, this book this most holy day?
Oct 11
By: Lila Wolk
On the west bank of the Nile River, in the city of Edfu, sits a temple to the ancient Egyptian sky god Horus. One of […]
Oct 10
By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff
Italian excavators working in Capernaum may have uncovered the remnants of the humble house of Peter that Jesus called home while in Capernaum.
Oct 10
By: Megan Sauter
What does Paul mean in the Bible when he says that the Israelites drank “from the spiritual rock that followed them” during their wanderings in the wilderness?
Oct 9
By: Marek Dospěl
In the first two centuries CE, Jews led two major revolts against the Romans—first, the Great Revolt (66–74), then the Bar-Kokhba Revolt (132–135). In their […]
Oct 8
By: James Tabor
James Tabor presents a fresh look at the original text of the earliest Gospel.
