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Jul 10 Blog

How to Smelt Chalcolithic Copper

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

For thousands of years, copper was one of the ancient world’s most important minerals. First produced at scale in the Chalcolithic period (which literally means […]

timna mines

Oct 21 Blog

How the Timna Mines Went Bust

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

For thousands of years the minerally rich Timna mines, in southern Israel, produces massive quantities of copper ore. Yet, in the early Iron Age, the […]

Jan 17 Blog

Copper and the History of the Alphabet in Ancient Egypt

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities announced that an archaeological excavation at the site of Wadi al-Nasb in southern Sinai uncovered a 4,000-year-old administrative center. The […]

Aug 26 Blog

Evidence of Elusive Edom

By: John Drummond

As the descendants of Jacob’s twin brother Esau, the people of Edom have been traditionally connected to their cousins in Israel. According to the account […]

Egyptian Canaanite

Jul 7 Blog

Copper Mines in the Arabah

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

New Kingdom Egypt’s copper likely originated in the Arabah, the wide desert valley that forms the modern border between Israel and Jordan. In addition to showing trade connections, this discovery could also provide new evidence on the reasons for the famous military expedition of the Egyptian pharaoh Shoshenq I (biblical Shishak) to the southern Levant in the mid-tenth century B.C.E.

Pharoah's Tomb, Valley of Kings

Jun 14 Blog

Ramesses III in Arabia?

By: Marek Dospěl

Egyptian archaeologists will start digging at two sites in Saudi Arabia in late 2021 to learn more about Egypt's connections to ancient Arabia.

Nov 25 Blog

The Complex Societies of Biblical-era Nomads

By: Jonathan Laden

Is archaeology biased against biblical nomads? Because modern archaeologists can find and analyze architectural remains more easily than ancient nomadic camp sites, do they falsely […]

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