Bible History Daily

By: Kim Jonas

Why did the ancients invent increasingly subtle and ingenious methods to arrive at an exact value of pi? Human curiosity.

By: Lauren K. McCormick

A recent journal article by Classics scholar Anna Athanasopoulou argues that the second to third-century CE narrative Onos challenges how scholars understand sexuality in ancient […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Excavators in the ancient Roman port city of Ostia made an incredible discovery when they uncovered a semi-subterranean Jewish ritual bath, or mikveh. Likely built […]

By: Megan Sauter

Laodicea was a wealthy city in western Turkey that flourished for centuries. Why does the author of the Book of Revelation call the church of Laodicea “lukewarm”—neither hot nor cold? Recent excavations at the site might provide the answer.

By: BAS Staff

Bearing gifts for the infant Jesus, the three wise men from the east traversed afar to reach Bethlehem. What do we really know about the magi, who are so central to the traditional telling of the Christmas story?

By: BAS Staff

First offered in 1993, the Biblical Archae­ology Society’s Dig Scholarships have gone hand in hand with BAR’s annual list of dig opportunities, which has been […]

By: David Moster

10 The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem houses one of the world’s most important collections of Biblical artifacts.

By: Joan E. Taylor

Scholar Joan E. Taylor says that it’s worth remembering that Jesus’ earliest years were, according to the Gospel of Matthew, spent as a refugee in a foreign land.

By: Lauren K. McCormick

Few images capture the Roman world more vividly than the clash of gladiators in the arena. These spectacles drew enormous crowds across the empire and […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Editor’s Note: This blog article contains images of human skeletal remains. Excavations near Jerusalem’s Old City have revealed the first known archaeological example of a […]