Nov 10
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
A diver off the northeastern coast of Sardinia discovered one of the largest caches of Roman coins ever found. According to a press release by […]
Nov 6
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
Utilizing declassified images from the CORONA and HEXAGON spy satellite programs, a team of archaeologists identified nearly 400 Roman fortresses throughout the northern Fertile Crescent. […]
Oct 16
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
The Herculaneum scrolls may be one of the most important sources of information on the ancient world ever discovered, yet they are practically unreadable, having […]
Oct 10
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
Despite hundreds of years of archaeological work in the ancient city, those excavating Pompeii continue to uncover amazing new finds. As announced by the Archaeological […]
Aug 31
By: Nicola Denzey Lewis
Brown University Religious Studies professor Nicola Denzey Lewis answers frequently asked questions about the apostle Peter. Denzey Lewis appears in the CNN series Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, Forgery, which aims to investigate artifacts that shed light on the world in which Jesus lived.
Aug 30
By: Megan Sauter
A short walk through Rome confirms the richness of its history. From the Pantheon to the Colosseum, the city boasts magnificent architecture and art. Yet […]
Aug 7
By: BAS Staff
Archaeologists excavating the site of Legio—the legionary camp of Rome’s Sixth Legion located at the foot of Tel Megiddo in northern Israel—have unearthed the remains […]
Aug 4
By: Clinton Moyer
While excavating a neighborhood in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, which was destroyed in 79 CE by the eruption of nearby Mt. Vesuvius, a […]
Jun 26
“Beware the ides of March,” wrote Shakespeare about the day of Julius Caesar’s assassination. Now, over 2,000 years later, tourists can finally visit the site […]
May 29
During a salvage excavation of a 19th-century excavation tunnel underneath the City of David, archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) discovered a fragmentary inscription […]
