With 11 rock-hewn churches, Lalibela, Ethiopia, is understandably a place of pilgrimage for those in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Explore Lalibela’s spectacular subterranean churches in this web-exclusive slideshow. Read more…
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The Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela
• 04/14/2018
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The Arch of Titus in Color
• 04/12/2017
The article “True Colors: Digital Reconstruction Restores Original Brilliance to the Arch of Titus” by Steven Fine, Peter J. Schertz and Donald H. Sanders in the May/June 2017 issue of Read more…
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Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J. (1920–2016)
• 04/12/2017
On Dec. 24, 2016, Joseph Fitzmyer died at the Jesuit Manresa Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was recognized as one of the premier Biblical scholars of his generation. Read more…
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Paul’s First Missionary Journey through Perga and Pisidian Antioch
• 05/15/2016
Paul’s first missionary journey took him from Cyprus into the heart of Anatolia. Explore the route with a web-exclusive slideshow. Read more…
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Ara Pacis Illuminated
• 04/03/2016
Using NASA data and 3D modeling, researchers have dispelled a long-held theory regarding the relationship between two famous monuments in ancient Rome. Read more…
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Doctors, Diseases and Deities: Epidemic Crises and Medicine in Ancient Rome
• 01/07/2016
In this lecture presented at The Explorers Club in New York, Sarah Yeomans examines a recently excavated archaeological site that has substantially contributed to our understanding of what ancient Romans Read more…
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Video: How to Make a Mudbrick at Tell Timai (Ancient Thmuis)
• 05/19/2015
Excavation staff member Marta Lorenzon provides a look into the creation of new mudbricks to conserve the ancient walls at Tell Timai. Read more…
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Video: Tell Timai 2014 — Week Two
• 07/02/2014
Explore an Egyptian excavation. Meet Kufti archaeologists, explore ancient streets and the mudbricks that shaped them and dive into the port of Alexandria. Read more…
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David and Uriah
• 06/23/2014
Listen as Emory University Hebrew Bible professor Jacob L. Wright reads a selection from his critically acclaimed new book David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory. The reading Read more…
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Video: Inside the 2014 Excavations at Tell Timai (Ancient Thmuis)
• 06/17/2014
The 2014 excavations at Tell Timai, directed by Robert Littman and Jay Silverstein, are exposing the ancient city of Thmuis in the Egyptian Nile Delta. In this studio-quality production, Tell Read more…
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The Oldest Reference to Israel
• 05/22/2014
Explore ancient texts in a video lecture presented by Jacob L. Wright. Read more…
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The Tomb of Queen Helena of Adiabene
• 04/09/2014
R. Steven Notley and Jeffrey P. García explore Queen Helena’s Jerusalem tomb and the recently excavated Jerusalem palace that might belong to her. Read more…
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Out of Egypt: Israel’s Exodus Between Text and Memory, History and Imagination
• 03/11/2014
Watch dozens of full-length lectures from the recent international conference Out of Egypt: Israel’s Exodus Between Text and Memory, History and Imagination. Read more…
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Video: What Was The Exodus?
• 03/11/2014
Watch a full-length lecture by University of California, San Diego scholar William Propp online for free. Read more…
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Video: Hero and Villain: Outline of the Exodus Pharaoh in Artapanus
• 03/10/2014
Watch a full-length lecture by University of Rome Sapienza scholar Caterina Moro online for free. Read more…
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Video: The Exodus and the Bible: What Was Known, What Was Remembered, What Was Forgotten
• 02/19/2014
Watch a full-length lecture by University of Arizona and Lycoming College scholar William Dever online for free. Read more…
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Video: Exodus and Memory: Remembering the Origin of Israel and Monotheism
• 02/19/2014
Watch a full-length keynote lecture by University of Konstanz scholar Jan Assmann online for free. Read more…
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Video: Can Archaeological Correlates for the Mnemo-Narratives of Exodus be Found?
• 02/18/2014
Watch a full-length lecture by Bar-Ilan University scholar Aren Maeir. Read more…
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Video: The Wilderness Itineraries–Who, How and When Did Biblical Authors Know About the Southern Deserts?
• 02/18/2014
Watch a full-length lecture by Tel Aviv University scholar Israel Finkelstein. Read more…
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Video: Har Karkom–Archaeological Discoveries on a Holy Mountain in the Desert of Exodus
• 02/14/2014
Where is Mt. Sinai? The investigation and study of Har Karkom has been the life work of Emmanuel Anati, an 83-year-old Italian archaeologist who has been documenting finds at the Read more…
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Video: EX3: Exodus, Cyber-Archaeology and the Future
• 02/06/2014
Take a tour of UCSD’s “museum of the future” with host Thomas E. Levy. Read more…
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Video: Did Israel’s Exodus Include Tales?
• 02/06/2014
Watch a full-length lecture by State University of New York scholar Susan Hollis. Read more…
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Video: On the Historicity of the Exodus
• 02/06/2014
Watch a full-length lecture by Manfred Bietak, director emeritus of the Institute of Egyptology at the University of Vienna. Read more…
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Video: Traditions Regarding a Great Going Forth from North-East Africa
• 02/06/2014
Watch Canadian Institute in Egypt’s Antoine Hirsch delivered the lecture “Traditions Regarding a Great Going Forth from North-East Africa: Date and Reliability” on behalf of Pennsylvania State University scholar Donald Read more…
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Video: The ‘Image’ of the Pharaoh in Judahite and Israelite Society According to the Glyptic Evidence
• 02/06/2014
Watch a full-length lecture by University of Bern scholar Stefan Münger. Read more…
