Aug 2
By: Jonathan Klawans
Seasoned visitors to Jerusalem surely know the Church of St. Anne, a pristinely preserved 12th-century Crusader church in the Romanesque style, near the beginning of […]
Jul 12
By: Marek Dospěl
The Epic of Gilgamesh is an ancient Mesopotamian literary work that tells a fantastic story of King Gilgamesh’s failed quest for immortality. Set in early […]
Jun 9
By: Jeffrey R. Zorn
Ilan Sharon, the former Nahman Avigad Chair of Biblical Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology, passed away at his home in […]
Jun 7
By: Megan Sauter
The Bible describes a “balm” of Gilead that is counted among “the choice fruits of the land” (Genesis 43:11). Renowned for its medicinal and aromatic […]
May 11
By: Marek Dospěl
Just over two hundred years ago, on September 14, 1822, Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) cracked the code of the Egyptian hieroglyphic script and the language behind […]
Apr 12
By: Marek Dospěl
When the biblical prophet Jeremiah decided to leave Judah and spend the rest of his life in Egyptian exile (Jeremiah 43), it must have been […]
Feb 27
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
Editor’s Note: This blog article contains images of human skeletal remains. While archaeology is not brain surgery, sometimes it can find evidence for it in the […]
Feb 8
By: John Drummond
There is a famous movie scene in which the world’s most notorious archaeologist, Indiana Jones, must pass a series of harrowing trials in order […]
Oct 5
By: Megan Sauter
Who are Rachel and Leah in the Bible? Sisters, rivals, mothers, matriarchs—these two women had a complicated relationship. In the Fall 2022 issue of Biblical Archaeology […]
Sep 8
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
Watch an EXCLUSIVE interview with Joe Uziel, head of the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Dead Sea Scrolls Unit, who discusses the recovery of a papyrus that […]
