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May 21 Blog

Ships in the Desert

While carrying out salvage excavations in the city of Rahat in the northern Negev desert, archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) came across something […]

Mar 14 Blog

The Nun of the Rings

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Editor’s Note: This blog article contains images of human skeletal remains. Excavations near Jerusalem’s Old City have revealed the first known archaeological example of a […]

Feb 3 Blog

A Byzantine Church on the Temple Mount?

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Workers at the Temple Mount Sifting Project (TMSP) have uncovered two unique weights that hint at the existence of a Byzantine church on the Temple […]

Jan 28 Blog

Where Was Moses Buried?

By: Marek Dospěl

Where was Moses buried? We don’t know exactly. Nor did the biblical writers: “Then Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of […]

Jan 30 Blog

Reconstructing an Early Christian Cathedral in the Galilee

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Did this cathedral in the Galilee play an exceptionally large role in the daily practice of baptisms during the Byzantine period (c. 324–634 CE)? According […]

Jul 26 Blog

Review: A Walk to Caesarea: A Historical-Archaeological Perspective

By: Joseph L. Rife

A Walk to Caesarea: A Historical-Archaeological Perspective By Joseph Patrich (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society and Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 2018), xii + 174 pp., 193 ill. […]

Jul 12 Blog

A Virtual Visit to the “City of Mosaics”

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

With many people unable to travel during the past year, archaeological and tourism sites across the Middle East have faced extremely difficult times. The ancient […]

extensive excavations in the northwestern part of Tel Beth Shemesh

May 28 Blog

The Other Side of Beth Shemesh

By: Boaz Gross

Tel Beth Shemesh was one of the first biblical sites to be excavated in the Land of Israel. The site is perched on a low […]

Byzantine Period Tombstone Inscribed in Greek

Jan 11 Blog

Byzantine Tombstone Discovered in Negev

By: Jonathan Laden

Archaeologists generally do quite a bit of planning, choosing dig sites, and working meticulously in the hopes of making a meaningful discovery. Most advances emerge […]

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