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By: BAS. Staff

By: Glenn J. Corbett

There are many problems associated with artifacts and objects that lack a secure archaeological context. As Biblical Archaeology Review readers know, we typically describe such […]

By: Glenn J. Corbett

Like many of you, we enter this summer season both deeply aware of the incredible pain and loss our global community has suffered during the […]

By: BAS Staff

In the Summer 2021 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, read touching tributes from family, friends, and BAS staff as they remember the late Hershel Shanks, […]

By: Jonathan Klawans

The traditional location of the Last Supper—the Crusader era “Upper Room,” known also as the Cenacle—has one thing going for it: height. The only location-specific […]

By: BAS Staff

Take a pilgrimage to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the revered site of Jesus’s death, burial, and resurrection, in the Spring 2021 issue of […]

By: Győző Vörös 

Timeline of Events at Machaerus   Late Hellenistic (Hasmonean) Period  c. 90 B.C.: The Machaerus fortress was founded by King Alexander Jannaeus. During the reign […]

By: BAS Staff

Step inside King Herod’s palace-fortress at Machaerus, east of the Dead Sea, in the Winter 2020 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review. BAR readers get a […]

By: Megan Sauter

In light of the global pandemic, museums throughout the world have closed their physical doors. Yet rather than pausing their educational mission, many have opened […]

By: BAS Staff

For millennia, humans have attempted to depict the divine. The Fall 2020 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review offers some intriguing examples of this phenomenon. Early Christian depictions of Jesus in which he holds a "magic wand". What John 1 means when it says “God is love.” And a new archaeological discovery.