Archaeology Today

Archaeology Today

Jan 14

The BAS Publication Awards

By: BAS Staff

New books appear every year on myriad topics within archaeology and biblical studies. Most are detailed, in-depth studies that make significant and novel contributions to […]

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Jan 10

Adam and Eve

By: BAS Staff

In a BAS Library special collection of articles, learn about a controversial interpretation of the creation of woman, and explore other themes related to Adam and Eve in the Bible.

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Jan 5

Replacing Archaeologists with AI

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Although you probably won’t see robots walking around an excavation site anytime soon, that doesn’t mean some archaeological tasks are not already being handled by […]

Dec 29

Top Ten Biblical Archaeology Stories of 2025

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

What were the top ten biblical archaeology stories of 2025? As the year winds down, we look back at some of the most popular news stories published […]

Dec 14

Locating Zoar

By: BAS Staff

Read Master’s College professor Bill Schlegel’s commentary on the location of Zoar along with Steven Collins’s response.

Israelite deportees in a relief from the Central Palace at Nimrud, around 730 BCE. Photo courtesy of the Photo Companion to the Bible, 2 Kings

Dec 5

The Ten Lost Tribes

By: BAS Staff

“So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.” This is how the Book of 2 Kings summarizes the Assyrian conquest […]

Restored mosaic floor from the site of Beer Shema in southern Israel. Courtesy Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority

Nov 26

Church of St. Stephen’s Mosaic Masterpiece

By: BAS Staff

Visitors to Southern Israel can now admire one of the most elaborate Byzantine mosaics ever discovered in the country. Soon after it was unearthed in […]

Nov 20

The Tomb of Jesus? Wrong on Every Count

By: Craig Evans and Steven Feldman

Back to “Jesus Tomb” Controversy Erupts—Again Rarely does the world of Biblical archaeology make as much news as when filmmakers James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici […]

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Nov 12

BAS 2025 Publication Awards Winners

By: Jennifer Drummond

2025 WINNERS BAS Publication Awards These prestigious awards have been made possible by a grant from the Rohr Family in memory of Sami Rohr. BEST […]

Different views of the exterior of the lead strip from Mt. Ebal. Photo by the Associates for Biblical Research

Nov 3

Too Good to Be True? Not Necessarily So!

By: Pieter Gert van der Veen

In his recent Biblical Archaeology Review article, “Too Good to Be True? Reckoning with Sensational Inscriptions,” epigrapher Christopher Rollston takes to task several recent studies […]

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