Dec 6
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.
Dec 5
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
It is not every day you discover a Bronze Age scarab completely by accident. Yet this is exactly what happened to Gilad Stern while he […]
Dec 2
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
As Yana Qadem, conservator for the Hippos-Sussita expedition in the Galilee, carefully removed dirt from a previously excavated mosaic, she made an unexpected discovery that […]
Nov 30
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
A study, which examined archaeological finds from several Philistines cities, concluded that Philistine urbanization occurred gradually and only took place after they entered the southern Levant and were integrated with the local Canaanite community.
Nov 28
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
While the Norse settler Naddodd is frequently credited with the discovery of Iceland, a different theory suggests that it might have actually been the ancient […]
Nov 25
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
This is the first part of an exclusive Bible History Daily series on historical texts that are important for understanding the history and world of […]
Nov 24
By: Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
A team from the Tell Halif archaeological excavation made their own tannur, a traditional oven referenced in the Hebrew Bible, and baked bread in it.
Nov 24
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 […]
Nov 23
By: Marek Dospěl
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, on November 4, 1922, archaeologists working in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings uncovered the first of 16 steps leading down to […]
Nov 17
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
While looking for the burial place of Queen Cleopatra, archaeologists uncovered the entrance to a long tunnel running underneath the Egyptian temple of Taposiris Magna, […]
