Aug 21
By: Jonathan Laden
On August 11, the Mount Zion archaeological project announced in a press release that archaeologists have discovered evidence of the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem from […]
Jul 29
By: Megan Sauter
How did people in ancient Canaan bury their dead babies? Many placed their dead babies in storage jars. These were then buried under the walls and […]
Jul 28
By: Robin Ngo
IAA archaeologists have discovered a 3,300-year-old anthropoid coffin with Egyptianizing features belonging to a wealthy Canaanite near Tel Shadud in the Jezreel Valley.
Jul 27
By: Noah Wiener
Megiddo’s Great Temple is a structure that, according to its excavators, “has proven to be the most monumental single edifice so far uncovered in the EB I Levant and ranks among the largest structures of its time in the Near East.”
Jul 24
By: BAS Staff
Located between Kiryat Gat and Lachish in southern Israel, Khirbet a-Ra‘i has been the site of excavations since 2015. The researchers recently announced their belief […]
Jul 23
By: Noah Wiener
Over the past few years, excavations at Tell es-Safi have exposed some remarkable cultic discoveries, including a horned altar.
Jul 22
By: BAS Staff
Archaeologists are no longer primarily dependent on descriptions from the first-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus for understanding what Herod’s Royal Portico (also known as Herod’s […]
Jul 19
By: Reviewed by Hillel Geva
Hillel Geva reviews "The Architecture of Herod: the Great Builder" by Ehud Netzer
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?
