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Nov 26 Blog

The Last Days of Hattusa

By: Trevor Bryce

In the latter part of the second millennium B.C., the Hittite empire was a Near Eastern superpower. Then, suddenly, the empire collapsed and Hattusa was invaded and destroyed.

Nov 14 Blog

Early Bronze Age: Megiddo’s Great Temple and the Birth of Urban Culture in the Levant

By: Noah Wiener

Megiddo’s Great Temple is a structure that, according to its excavators, “has proven to be the most monumental single edifice so far uncovered in the EB I Levant and ranks among the largest structures of its time in the Near East.”

Jun 28 Blog

Bronze Age Collapse: Pollen Study Highlights Late Bronze Age Drought

By: Noah Wiener

What caused the Bronze Age collapse? A study of pollen grains in sediment cores beneath the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea provides a different view of the Bronze Age collapse.

Oct 20 Blog

What Does the Aegean World Have to Do with the Biblical World?

By: Ellen White

What does the ancient Aegean world in the west have to do with the Biblical world in the east? Quite a lot, according to Aegean archaeology specialist Louise Hitchcock.

Sep 21 Blog

The Seleucid Akra: 2,200-Year-Old Jerusalem Fortress Uncovered?

By: Robin Ngo

Archaeologists excavating in the City of David may have found the fortress that Seleucid King Antiochus constructed following his conquest of Jerusalem around 167 B.C.E.

Oct 31 Blog

Video Lecture: “The Origin of Heaven and Hell”

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

In this illuminating lecture, BAR Editor Robert R. Cargill will show you how heaven and hell came to exist so prominently in Jewish and Christian literature.

Aug 15 Blog

Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Jennie Ebeling reviews Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology by Eric H. Cline.

Jun 5 Blog

Minoan Frescoes at Tel Kabri

By: Noah Wiener

Over 100 years of excavations on Crete have exposed elegant Minoan frescoes that once adorned the walls of the island’s Bronze Age palaces. This distinctively colorful Aegean art style flourished in the Middle Bronze Age (1750-1550 B.C.).

Apr 30 Blog

A Royal Tomb at Biblical Armageddon?

By: Samuel DeWitt Pfister

In 2016, team members of the Megiddo Expedition digging at the location of Biblical Armageddon uncovered a lavish tomb adjacent to a monumental Middle Bronze Age palace.

Feb 22 Blog

The Exodus

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Eric H. Cline reviews The Exodus by Richard Elliott Friedman.

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