Jul 28 Blog
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
Within the Bible, the name Arava often refers to the entire Jordan Rift Valley, the narrow stretch of land running from the Sea of Galilee […]
Apr 12 Blog
By: Robin Gallaher Branch
Eleazar, Aaron’s son and successor as high priest, witnessed some of the most dramatic events in Israel’s early history. Mentioned more than 60 times in […]
Feb 7 Blog
At the crossroads of ancient trade routes running through the Negev Desert, archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) discovered a complex of mysterious tombs […]
Jan 17 Blog
By: BAS Staff
The kingdom of the biblical Ammonites is mentioned a handful of times in the Hebrew Bible. Possibly the most memorable instance is in 2 Samuel […]
Jul 19 Blog
The minimalist-maximalist debate within biblical archaeology has waged for decades, with seemingly everyone taking sides. But could this debate be based on scholarly misconceptions about […]
May 26 Blog
Was ancient Israel’s United Monarchy a semi-nomadic kingdom that is now largely invisible to modern archaeology? Some archaeologists think so. To better understand this […]
Oct 21 Blog
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 […]
Aug 5 Blog
According to a scholarly article published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly, the biblical “Road of Edom,” mentioned in 2 Kings 3, may have been discovered. The proposal follows the recent excavation of Gorer Tower, a Judean outpost in the Judean Desert that archaeologists date to the Iron Age II period (c. 1000–586 B.C.E.). Based on the excavation, the team, led by archaeologists from Ben-Gurion University and the Israel Antiquities Authority, has proposed a new reconstruction of the ancient road system that connected the kingdoms of Judah, Edom, and Moab.
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