Biblical Sites & Places

Biblical Sites & Places

Upper Room

Jul 13

Hunting for the Upper Room in Jerusalem

By: David Christian Clausen

The traditional location of the Upper Room, a site featured in the New Testament Gospels, is today placed on the southern end of Mount Zion […]

Menorah Stone

Jul 10

Understanding the Jewish Menorah

By: BAS Staff

The Jewish menorah—especially the Temple menorah, a seven-branched candelabra that stood in the Temple—is the most enduring and iconic Jewish symbol. But what did the Temple menorah actually look like? Learn more in this post and view a number of important menorah depictions from antiquity.

Jul 9

Exploring Jesus’s Hometown

By: James Riley Strange

In the early first century CE, Jesus’s hometown of Nazareth was a Galilean village like most others. With a population probably numbering only in the […]

Overview of Cerro del Villar from the northwest. Photodrone Tech SL / Cerro del Villar Archaeological Project

Jul 2

The Mediterranean’s Master Traders

By: Clinton J. Moyer

The Phoenicians were the maritime traders par excellence during the Iron Age. By the late ninth century BCE, they had ventured from their home cities […]

Siloam Pool

Jul 1

The Siloam Pool: Where Jesus Healed the Blind Man

By: BAS Staff

The Siloam Pool has long been considered a sacred Christian site, even if the correct identification of the site itself was uncertain. According to the Gospel of John, it was at the Siloam Pool where Jesus healed the blind man (John 9:1–11).

The region of Ghor al-Safi in Jordan, with the Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth in the foreground and the southern portion of the Dead Sea in the distance. Photo by Glenn J. Corbett

Jun 30

The Land of Lot

By: Konstantinos Politis

Most travelers to Jordan have visited the famous Nabatean city of Petra or the dune-swept, otherworldly landscape of Wadi Rum, both UNESCO World Heritage sites. […]

Excavations at the Venezilou Metro station in Thessaloniki, which revealed the intersection of the ancient city’s two main thoroughfares, the cardo and the decumanus. Photo courtesy Mark Wilson.

Jun 25

Underground Thessalonica

By: Mark Wilson

Visitors to the archaeologically rich city of Thessaloniki, Greece, have a new archaeological treat in store for them. With the opening of the city’s Metro […]

Machaerus Rendering

Jun 15

Machaerus: Beyond the Beheading of John the Baptist

By: BAS Staff

According to the Gospels, Herod Antipas had John the Baptist imprisoned and killed at the request of the beautiful Salome. Josephus locates the event at Machaerus. The archaeological finds paint a clear picture of this magnificent site’s colorful but bloody history.

Cuneiform tablets from the site of Nuzi in northern Iraq. Zunkir, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Jun 13

The Nuzi Tablets

By: Philippe Bohström

Northern Iraq is a landscape steeped in both historical and economic significance. During the early 20th century, international oil consortiums dispatched businessmen, geologists, and engineers […]

Jun 10

The Emmaus Trail

By: Henri Gourinard

In this post, Henri Gourinard, master tour guide and lecturer at the Polis Institute in Jerusalem, describes the competing views on the location of Emmaus, […]

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