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By: Robert R. Cargill

The Museum of the Bible is once again playing defense. After a series of embarrassing setbacks that struck at the heart of its credibility as […]

By: Robert Cargill

The Museum of the Bible announced that at least five of their Dead Sea Scrolls fragments have been determined to be fakes.

By: Robin Ngo and Megan Sauter

A new museum dedicated to the best-selling book of all time will open in Washington, D.C.—just three blocks from the U.S. Capitol.

By: Hershel Shanks

Looters sometimes indirectly alert archaeologists to the existence of valuable finds and are sent to jail if they are caught, while the archaeologists learn from the looters where to dig. In his First Person column in BAR, Hershel Shanks explores this paradox.

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Birger A. Pearson reviews The Nag Hammadi Story: Vol. 1 & 2 by James M. Robinson.

By: Hershel Shanks

Shlomo Moussaieff, who owned the world’s largest private collection of Near Eastern antiquities, passed away in the summer of 2015 at the age of 92. What is the future of his collection?

By: Hershel Shanks

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

By: Noah Wiener

A recently discovered cache of medieval Jewish manuscripts from Afghanistan* went on display last week in Israel’s National Library. The 11th-century C.E. collection, dubbed the “Afghan Genizah,” includes Biblical commentaries, personal letters and financial records written in Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic and Judeo-Persian, a language written in Hebrew script.

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

This morning, Jerusalem District Court Judge Aharon Farkash gave the Israeli government 30 days to support of its claim to retain the James Ossuary, Jehoash Tablet and other Israeli antiquities.

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced this week that two beautifully decorated and well preserved wooden coffin lids dating to the time of Egypt’s pharaohs […]