Apr 17 Blog
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
What do you and a 3,600-year-old Canaanite have in common? You both have used vanilla. The discovery of vanilla-laced wine in Iron Age Jerusalem caused […]
Dec 3 Blog
While walking with her family at Tel Qana near Tel Aviv, a young girl made a fantastic find: a small stone in the shape of […]
Oct 27 Blog
The Way of Horus was a critical trade route connecting ancient Egypt to the greater Near Eastern world. It was so important, in fact, that […]
Sep 5 Blog
Excavations at the site of Neve Efraim, near Tel Aviv, have revealed three of the oldest lamp wicks ever discovered. Although wicks may seem like […]
Aug 15 Blog
Mentioned throughout the Hebrew Bible as terrifying fighters, the Philistines were ancient Israel’s greatest enemy … or were they? Decades of excavation at Tell es-Safi […]
Jul 26 Blog
By: Marek Dospěl
The biblical figure of Joseph offers one of the most fascinating narratives of the Hebrew Bible. Genesis 37–50 tells the intricate and adventurous story that […]
Jul 18 Blog
Although the urbanization of Canaan in the Early Bronze Age (c. 3300–2000 BCE) has long been established in scholarship, recent excavations in Saudi Arabia have […]
May 23 Blog
An early alphabetic text discovered at Beth Shemesh in central Israel has drawn the attention of Assyriologists and archaeologists for nearly a century. Although the […]
Nov 4 Blog
Excavators with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered what is likely the oldest temple ever discovered in the Shephelah region of central Israel. Dating […]
Aug 21 Blog
During excavations at the site of Tel Shimron in northern Israel, archaeologists were shocked to discover the earliest example of a corbelled vault ever discovered […]
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