A 2,200-year-old gold earring portraying the head of a horned animal was unearthed in the Givati Parking Lot in Jerusalem’s City of David National Park. Read more…
Biblical Sites & Places
Biblical sites and places are archaeological sites or geographical places and regions related to the Bible.
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Hellenistic Jewelry Discovered in Jerusalem
• 08/10/2018
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What the Temple Mount Floor Looked Like
• 08/05/2018
More than a hundred colorful polished stone tiles have been recovered by the Temple Mount Sifting Project. The tiles reveal what the Temple Mount floors looked like in Herod’s time. Read more…
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Sifting Antiquity on the Temple Mount Sifting Project
• 08/04/2018
Archaeological excavations are prohibited on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, though one project—the Temple Mount Sifting Project—has been analyzing soil that came from the Temple Mount since 2004. Learn the Read more…
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The Temple Mount in the Herodian Period (37 BC–70 A.D.)
• 08/03/2018
Archaeological architect Leen Ritmeyer presents drawings of the Temple Mount in the Herodian period. Read more…
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Canaanite Fortress Discovered in the City of David
• 08/02/2018
Excavations around the Gihon Spring in the City of David uncovered a massive 3,800-year-old fortress. Read more…
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Condemned to Mine Copper
• 07/19/2018
Sending condemned prisoners to mine copper in the Faynan in present-day Jordan was a popular form of early Christian persecution in the Roman Empire. Read more…
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Huqoq Mosaic Depicts Israelite Spies from Numbers 13
• 07/12/2018
The 2018 season of excavation at a Late Roman synagogue at Huqoq revealed more fascinating mosaics, including one referencing Numbers 13:23. Read more…
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The Doorways of Solomon’s Temple
• 06/26/2018
In the Bible, the inner shrine of Solomon’s Temple is described as having five mezuzot. What are they? The question has puzzled Biblical scholars for centuries. Does a recently discovered Read more…
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A Biblical Altar on Mt. Ebal and Other Israelite Footprints in the Jordan Valley?
• 06/24/2018
Foot-shaped sites have been found throughout the Jordan Valley, including an extraordinary cultic site on Mt. Ebal. Is this the Israelite altar described in Joshua 8? Were these foot-shaped enclosures Read more…
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Carchemish in the Bible and History
• 06/21/2018
Carchemish was an important Hittite fortress and provincial capital located on the west bank of the Euphrates River. Read more…
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Minoan Frescoes at Tel Kabri
• 06/05/2018
Over 100 years of excavations on Crete have exposed elegant Minoan frescoes that once adorned the walls of the island’s Bronze Age palaces. This distinctively colorful Aegean art style flourished Read more…
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When Egyptian Pharaohs Ruled Bronze Age Jerusalem
• 05/30/2018
What were Egyptian pharaohs doing in Bronze Age Jerusalem? Peter van der Veen investigates an Egyptian presence before the time of David. Read more…
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Where Noah Landed?
• 05/27/2018
Still another group is looking for Mt. Ararat, where the Bible says Noah landed after the flood. This group is looking to confirm the tradition that nearby Mt. Cudi (Judi Read more…
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Where Is the Original Siloam Pool from the Bible?
• 05/22/2018
Where is the original Siloam Pool, the water pool that fed Jerusalem in the First Temple period? While the Roman-period Siloam Pool—where Jesus cured the blind man—was recently discovered, the Read more…
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Puzzling Finds from Kuntillet ‘Ajrud
• 05/20/2018
“Yahweh and his Asherah” is written across the top of this eighth-century B.C. drawing on a ceramic pithos from Kuntillet ‘Ajrud in the eastern Sinai. Some scholars have theorized that Read more…
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The Siloam Pool: Where Jesus Healed the Blind Man
• 05/12/2018
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 Read more…
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A Royal Tomb at Biblical Armageddon?
• 04/30/2018
In 2016, team members of the Megiddo Expedition digging at the location of Biblical Armageddon uncovered a lavish tomb adjacent to a monumental Middle Bronze Age palace. Read more…
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Where Did Jesus Turn Water into Wine?
• 04/28/2018
Where did Jesus turn water into wine? According to archaeologist Tom McCollough in “Searching for Cana: Where Jesus Turned Water into Wine” in BAR, one site offers the most compelling Read more…
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Hezekiah’s Tunnel Reexamined
• 04/24/2018
For more than a hundred years, an extraordinary water tunnel in Jerusalem has been attributed to King Hezekiah, who dug it to protect the city’s water supply during the Assyrian Read more…
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The Bethesda Pool, Site of One of Jesus’ Miracles
• 04/24/2018
The Bethesda Pool, where Jesus heals the paralytic man in the Gospel of John, is a complex site. It appears to have been a mikveh, or ritual bath. As the Read more…
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The House of Peter: The Home of Jesus in Capernaum?
• 04/22/2018
Italian excavators working in Capernaum may have uncovered the remnants of the humble house of Peter that Jesus called home while in Capernaum. Read more…
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When Did Christianity Begin to Spread?
• 04/21/2018
How old is Christianity? Churches are among Biblical archaeology findings that hold the answer. Read more…
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Ophel Excavations Uncover Jewish Revolt Coins in Rebel Hideout
• 04/18/2018
Dozens of bronze Jewish revolt coins from the First Jewish Revolt against Rome were discovered in the renewed Ophel excavations in Jerusalem. Read more…
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The Masada Siege
• 04/06/2018
What do we know about the Roman siege of Masada? We must consider both the account given by Josephus and the surviving archaeological evidence in order to reconstruct what happened. Read more…
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Jewish Captives in the Imperial City
• 04/05/2018
Ancient Rome was the superpower of its day. Yet, when the Romans conquered the tiny province of Judea and quashed the First Jewish Revolt in 70 C.E., it was actually Read more…
