Jul 2
By: Marek Dospěl
Learn how scholars identify ancient gardens, what Herod’s gardens looked like, and how they fit in the larger landscape.
Jun 13
By: Sarah K. Yeomans
Did the Antonine Plague influence shifts in religious practices at the end of the second century C.E.?
May 29
By: Christina Triantafillou
Excavations in the city of Cologne have uncovered the remains of Germany’s oldest library.
May 23
By: Robin Ngo
A recently published paper describes researchers using ancient ingredients to recreate ancient beers.
May 17
By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff
In the southwest of Asia Minor, at the site of Aphrodisias, Turkey, archaeology has provided insight into the lives of Roman slaves, including a man named Zoilos who earned his freedom.
May 1
By: Ellen White
Dogs—or celeb in Hebrew—were not well loved in the Bible. Given the negative associations with dogs, it is surprising that one of the great Hebrew spies bears this name.
Apr 23
By: Megan Sauter
Go on a culinary adventure through historical and archaeological remains to reconstruct the diet of the average person in Roman Palestine.
Apr 20
By: Megan Sauter
Were there synagogues before the Romans destroyed the Temple, or did they develop only afterward? Communal structures from the Second Temple period have been discovered, but should they be considered synagogues even though they don’t share the major architectural feature common to post-destruction synagogues?
Apr 15
By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff
The origins of Jewish dietary or kosher laws (kashrut) have long been the subject of scholarly research and debate.
Mar 26
By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff
Although excavated structures, pottery and other household artifacts offer a glimpse of daily life in the Iron Age highlands of Canaan, no burials or tombs have been found. What do these findings reveal about the ideology of early Iron Age Israelite society?
