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Mar 20 Blog

What to Do with Unprovenanced Artifacts—Publish or Perish?

By: Hershel Shanks

Hershel Shanks’s First Person in the March/April 2013 issue of BAR

Jul 15 Blog

Bible Artifacts Found Outside the Trench: The Amarna Tablets

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

A trend has developed recently in the archaeological establishment: Ignore all unprovenanced Biblical artifacts, that is, Bible artifacts found outside of a professional excavation that […]

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