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The Egyptian scarab. Courtesy Emil Aladjem, IAA

Dec 3 Blog

Young Girl Discovers Egyptian Scarab

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 […]

Jar handle stamped with the name of Pharaoh Thutmose I. Courtesy Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities

Oct 27 Blog

New Kingdom Fortress Discovered in Sinai

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

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

Rare Wick Discovery Illuminates Bronze Age Burials

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

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

Who Were the Philistines?

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

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

Joseph in Egypt

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

Fortifying Arabia

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

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 from Beth Shemesh

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

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 […]

Aerial view of Tel Megiddo. AVRAM GRAICER, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Apr 21 Blog

The Vanilla Enigma: How a Canaanite Tomb Rewrote Spice History

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 […]

Nov 4 Blog

Early Urbanization in Ancient Canaan

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

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

A Canaanite Corbelled Vault

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

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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