Sep 9
The first-century CE siege of Masada is one of the most famous sieges in the history of Judah. Despite this, little is actually known about […]
Sep 6
Excavations off the western tip of Sicily have revealed a bronze rostrum—a type of battering ram attached to the front of a Roman warship—dating to […]
Aug 16
Once an impressive stronghold of the Roman Empire, the city of Dura-Europos, located along the banks of the Euphrates River in eastern Syria, is a […]
Aug 9
Although the original biblical texts were written mostly in Hebrew or Greek, there is no denying that Latin was one of the most important languages […]
Jul 31
By: John Drummond
According to Acts 19, there was once a riot in the ancient city of Ephesus instigated by a silversmith named Demetrius. At some point, this […]
Jul 19
While hiking on Mt. Carmel outside of Haifa, a young teenager spotted an object on the ground that he originally took to be a rusty […]
May 17
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
Although scholars have long suspected that Plato, one of the most famous philosophers of antiquity, was buried within the grounds of the school he helped […]
May 16
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.
May 13
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
Wine has been synonymous with the Mediterranean world since before the time of Jesus, 2,000 years ago. Indeed, wine is attested in practically any ancient […]
May 1
By: BAS Staff
Egeria’s Travels is an early Christian pilgrimage account by an educated and well-traveled woman from the Roman province of Galicia (in modern Spain) that tells […]
